VOL. XIII.
Notes &
FOR
^onto.
SOMERSET AND DORSET
EDITED BY
FREDERIC WILLIAM WEAVER, M.A., F.S.A.
(Vicar of Milton Clevedon, Editor of the " Visitations of the
Counties of Somerset and Hereford," "Somerset Incumbents," etc.)
AND
CHARLES HERBERT MAYO, M.A., R.D.
(Vicar of Long Burton with Holnest, Canon Non-Res, of
Sarum, author of " Bibliotheca Dorsetiensis," etc.)
" Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt,
Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out."
HERRICK.
CONTENTS.
No. PAGE.
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i Wells Corporation Seals
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2 Thurlebere Manor -
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3 Coker of Stour Payne -
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4 Matilda de Donne
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5 Derivation of Neroche -
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6 Old Map of Dorset
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7 Somerset Books and Articles -
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8 Melcombe Regis Registers -
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9 Ursula Dyer's Inventory
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10 Wrington Parish Bill -
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12 Holgod and Styvinton -
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13 Russell Family, Sher borne -
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14 Tregonwell Frampton - - 26
15 Tenants of Sherborne, 1377 - 29
16 The De Harpetrees -
17 Stoford in Ilton - -
1 8 Chewton Terrier - -
19 Monumental Inscriptions
20 Chantmarle and Combe
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22-24 Notices of Books -
25 Abbot Monington's Secre-
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26 Dorset Inquis. p. mortem - 49
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NOTES & QUERIES
FOR
SOMERSET & DORSET.
I. THE WELLS CORPORATION SEALS. — The ancient Seals
of the Corporation of Wells are so interesting that a few notes
may be acceptable to your readers. They are thus described in the
fine work of Jewitt and Hope, — The Corporate Plate and Insignia
of Office of the Cities and Corporate Towns of England and Wales.
ii. 298, 299. Bemrose, 1895.
" The common seal of the city of Wells is a fine double cir-
cular one, 2^ inches in diameter, of early thirteenth century date.
The matrices are of copper gilt, and are each provided with
three keys to insure their fitting properly together. The obverse
bears a conventional representation of the front of the cathedral
church, with three great gables, and a door at each end, the
whole rising above the city. In base is a three-arched bridge,
and in chief a half-effigy of Our Lord in the clouds between the
sun and moon. Legend :
SIGILLVM : COMMVNE : BVRGI : WELLIE *
" The reverse bears a great tree with birds in the branches,
and in base the springs of St. Andrew issuing from under the
trunk. Other birds are on the ground or flying down, and a
large stork is dragging a huge pike out of the water. Legend :
X ANDREA : FAMVLOS : MORE : TVERE : TVOS *
"This interesting seal is still in use."
This seal is an historical document. It represents the natural
features, the architectural fabric, the ecclesiastical character of
the city by the Springs of Water. The date of the earliest extant
impression of the seal is 1315. We might imagine such a seal
to have been designed by bishop Josceline when he consecrated
his Church by ' the great fountain of St. Andrew,' bidding his peo-
ple to hallow each act of their corporate life, as often as they
VOL. XIII. PART xcvn. MARCH, 1912. A
2 Somerset &• Dorset Notes &• Queries.
used their corporate seal, by the invocation of their patron saint :
" Fail not blessed Andrew to protect thy servants."
There is another seal of great interest and of like antiquity.
In the manuscripts belonging to the Corporation is a grant with
a fine impression of the seal of the Seneschal of the Commu-
nity of Wells, dated 1316, — thus described in this same work:
" The old mayor's seal, contemporary with the common
seal, is a round one, i£ inch in diameter, and of silver, with a
chain attached to it. The device represents a large tree with
birds in the branches, rising out of a pool. In the water lies a
large fish which two crows are busily attacking. On one side is
the head of St. Andrew and his cross saltire, and on the other
the head of St. Peter and his two keys. The legend is :
* S' OFFICII SENESCALLI COMVNITATIS BVRGI
WELLIE.
" The present mayor's seal, which was given by a Mr. Joyce
about ten years before it came regularly into use in 1763, is an
oval one of silver, i J inch long. It bears an ornate shield of the
city arms, with the legend :
HOC FONTE DERIVATA COPIA IN PATRIAM
POPULUMQUE FLUIT."
(Jewitt & Hope, ii. 298, 299.)
It will be generally felt that the modern seal, in its style of
seal engraving, and in the infelicitous adaptation in the legend
of two well known lines of an ode of Horace,* is in unfavourable
contrast with the earlier corporation seals.
C. M. C.
2. THURLEBERE MANOR, SOMERSET. — The following docu-
ments referring to the Manor of Thurlebere may be of interest,
for, as far as I am aware, reference to them has not hitherto been
made, and the Charter of Edward II (1325), here given in full,
appears only in a condensed form in the printed volume of Char-
ter Rolls (Vol. II, p. 346). I came across the De Banco pro-
ceedings on going through the Roll, membrane by membrane, for
other purposes, and it shows what these valuable documents con-
tain ; would that there existed some sort of printed calendar or
index to their contents !
Referring to the De Banco suit, it would appear that Thomas
de Monte Acuto, Earl of Salisbury, brought an action in 1424
against Cecilia, wife of William Cheyne, Knt., (and widow of
Thomas Bonevile) for claiming the manor of Thurlebere as tenant
for life. He relies on the Charter by which Edward II gave the
* cf. Hor. Od. iii. 6. 19. 20.
Somerset &• Dorset Notes &• Queries. 3
said Manor to his ancestor Simon de Monte Acuto. and describes
how it descended to himself as direct heir of said Simon.
Cecilia in her reply says it was given by a certain Nicholas
Yue (or Yve) to William Bonevile and his wife Margaret, parents
of her deceased husband Thomas Bonevile, and states that she
has the Manor for life with remainder to John and Thomas Bone-
vile, the former apparently her own son and the other his cousin.
The accompanying pedigrees will render the dispute some-
what clearer.
Nothing more appears on this or subsequent rolls as to the
result of the action, so that it must have been settled out of Court
and probably in Cecilia's favour, because in the Inquisition taken
on her death in 9 Henry VI, 1430, (which by the bye is a very
difficult document to read owing to gall stains) the manor appears
to have been part of her property, or rather property in which
she had an interest.
Wishing for further evidence regarding her right to the
manor, I came across an earlier document, viz. a Patent Roll of
15 Richard II, 1392, by which it is tolerably clear that the manor
was alienated or at least put into the hands of trustees, (of whom
Nicholas Yve of West Kington in Wiltshire was one) by William
de Montacute, Earl of Salisbury, son of Simon the original donee,
and thus it came to William Bonevile, father of Thomas Bonevile,
the first husband of Cecilia.
It is rather strange that Cecilia did not rely on or quote this
Patent Roll in her pleadings ; perhaps the suit in Henry VFs
reign was not further proceeded with owing to an inspection of it.
Anyway from the two documents we get many interesting details,
and I daresay there is further information to be obtained from
other sources if anyone interested in this Manor has time to in-
vestigate ; and, perhaps, the documents now supplied may stimu-
late further research. E. A. FRY,
De Banco Roll, No. 655. Michaelmas, 3 Henry VI, 1424,
m. 108. Thomas de Monte Acuto Earl of Salisbury per Richard
Goold his attorney petitions versus Cecilia who was wife of William
Cheyne chivaler the manor of Thurlebere with appurtenances
which the Lord Edward formerly King of England progenitor of
the now King gave to Simon de Monte Acuto for life of said
Simon So that after the death of said Simon the said manor should
remain to William son of said Simon and to the heirs proceeding
from the body of said William the son of said Simon And that
after the deaths of the said Simon and William son of Simon and
of William son and heir of said William son of Simon and of John
brother of said William son of William and of John son of said
John the brother of William should descend to the said Earl son
of John son of John and kin and heir of said William son of
William by form of the gift aforesaid.
4 Somerset & Dorset Notes <&• Queries.
And whence he says that the said Edward that is to say the
Lord Edward formerly King of England the second after the
Conquest progenitor of the now King gave the said manor with
appurtenances to said Simon de Monte Acuto for the life of said
Simon so that after the death of said Simon the said manor should
remain to said William the son of said Simon and to the heirs
proceeding from the body of said William the son of Simon.
By virtue of which said gift Simon de Monte Acuto was
seized of the manor aforesaid with appurtenances in his demesne
as of free tenement by form, &c., in the time of peace in the time
of the said Lord Edward formerly King of England &c. taking
thereof the rents to the value, &c., and so seized he died. After
whose death the said William son of said Simon entered into
said manor with appurtenances as in his said remainder and was
thereof seized in his demesne as of fee and right by form, &c.,
in the time of peace in the time of the Lord Edward King of
England the third after the conquest progenitor of the now King
taking thereof the rents to the value, &c,
And from the said William son of Simon by right descend-
ing, &c., per form &c. to a certain William as son and heir, &c.
And from said William son of William for that he died with-
out heir issuing from his body by right &c., per form, &c., to a
certain John as brother and heir, &c.
And from said John brother of said William son of William
by right descending, &c., per form, &c., to a certain John as son
and heir &c.,
And from said John son of John brother of William descend-
ing by right, &c., per form, &c., to this Earl who now petitions as
son of the said John son of John as kin and heir of said William
son of William and that after the death, &c.
And thereof produces suit, &c., and prefers here in Court the
certain letters patent aforesaid of Edward formerly King the
second after the Conquest which testify the gift and remainder
in these words :
Edwardus Dei gratia Rex Anglic Dominus Hibernie & Dux
Aquitanie Archiepiscopis Episcopis Abbatibusque Prioribus Co-
mitibus Justiciis Vicecomitibus Prepositis Ministris & omnibus
Ballivis & fidelibus suis Salutem Sciatis quod dedimus concessi-
mus & hac carta nostra confirmamus dilecto & fideli nostro
Simoni de Monte Acuto manerium de Shipton Montagu cum
bosco in foresta nostra de Selewode ad idem manerium pertinente
Jerlinton Chedeseye Gothulle Knolle Thurlebere & La More in
comitatu Sumerset & manerium de Swere una cum viginti libra-
tis redditus in Pudeletune et viginti libratis redditus in Lulle-
wrth & decem solidatis redditus in Blakemore cum bosco de
Blakemore qui fuit predict! Simonis in comitatu Dors' & maner-
ium de Wunford in comitatu Devon & manerium de Eston Clin-
ton in comitatu Buk & manerium de Kersington in comitatu
Somerset <?>• Dorset Notes &• Queries. 5
Oxonie cum feodis militum advocacionibus ecclesiarum juribus
libertatibus & liberis consuetudinibus & omnibus aliis ad pre-
dicta maneria pertinentibus habenda et tenenda eidem Simoni
tota vita sua sine calumpnia vasti faciendo inde nobis & heredibus
nostris & aliis dominis feodorum servicia que ad predicta tene-
menta pertinent Ita quod post mortem ejusdem Simonis predicta
maneria cum boscis redditibus feodis militum advocacionibus ec-
clesiarum & omnibus aliis ad ea pertinentibus remaneant Williel-
mo filio ejusdem Simonis & heredibus de corpore ejusdem Wil-
lielmi legitime procreatis Et si contingat quod predictus Williel-
mus vel heredes de corpore suo legitime procreati obierunt sine
herede de se tune predicta maneria cum boscis redditibus feodis
militum advocacionibus ecclesiarum & omnibus aliis pertinenciis
suis predictis remaneant Simoni fratri ejusdem Willielmi & here-
dibus de corpore suo legitime procreatis Et si predictus Simon
vel heredes sui de corpore suo legitime procreati oberiunt sine
herede de se tune omnia predicta maneria una cum boscis reddit-
ibus feodis militum advocacionibus ecclesiarum & omnibus aliis
pertinenciis suis predictis ad proximos heredes predicti Simonis
patris predictorum Willielmi & Simonis integre remaneant im-
perpetuum Ita quod iidem Simon Willielmus & Simon & eorum
heredes habeant & teneant omnia terras & tenementa predicta
cum boscis redditibus feodis militum advocacionibus ecclesiarum
juribus libertatibus & omnibus aliis pertinenciis suis predictis in
eodem statu & in eadem libertate erga nos & alios quoscumque in
quo predictus Simon pater predictorum Willelmi & Simonis ea
tenuit die quo ea reddidit in manus nostras et quod predicti
Simon Willielmus & Simon & eorum heredes nobis & aliis qui-
buscumque inde respondeant secundum legem & consuetudinem
regni nostri donacione nostra predicta non obstante.
Quare Volumus & firmiter precipimus pro nobis & heredibus
nostris quod predictus Simon habeat & teneat tota vita sua
maneria predicta cum boscis & redditibus & cum feodis militum
advocacionibus ecclesiarum juribus libertatibus & liberis consue-
tudinibus & omnibus aliis ad ea pertinentibus sine calumpnia
vasti faciendo inde nobis & heredibus nostris & aliis dominis feo-
dorum servicia que ad predicta tenementa pertinent.
Ita quod post mortem ejusdem Simonis predicta maneria
cum boscis redditibus feodis militum advocacionibus ecclesiarum
& omnibus aliis ad ea pertinentibus remaneant Willielmo filio
ejusdem Simonis & heredibus de corpore ejusdem Willielmi
legitime procreatis
Et si contingat quod predictus Willielmus vel heredes de
corpore suo legitime procreati obierunt sine herede de se tune
predicta maneria cum boscis redditibus feodis militum advoca-
cionibus ecclesiarum & omnibus aliis partinenciis suis predictis
remaneant Simoni fratri ejusdem Willielmi & heredibus de cor-
pore suo legitime procreatis
6 Somerset &• Dorset Notes <§• Querie-s.
Et si predictus Simon vel heredes sui de corpore suo legi-
time procreati obierunt sine herede de se tune omnia predicta
maneria cum boscis redditibus feodis militum advocacionibus
ecclesiarum & omnibus aliis pertinenciis suis predictis ad proxi-
mos heredes predicti Simonis patris predictorum Willielmi &
Simonis integre remaneant imperpetuum
Ita quod iidem Simon Willielmus &Simon& eorum heredes ha-
beant&teneant omnia terras & tenementa predicta cum boscis red-
ditibus feodis militum advocacionibusecclesiarum juribus libertati-
bus & omnibus aliis pertinenciis suis predictis in eodem statu &
in eadem libertate erga nos & alios quoscumque in quo predictus
Simon pater predictorum Willielmi & Simonis ea tenuit die quo
ea reddidit in manus nostras
Et quod predicti Simon Willielmus & Simon & eorum heredes
nobis & aliis quibuscumque inde respondeant secundum legem &
consuetudinem regni nostri donacione nostra predicta non ob-
stante sicut predictum est
Hiis testibus Venerabilibus prioribus G. Wygorn. D. Bathon.
& Wellen. J. Winton & Th. Meneven. Episcopis Edmundo fratre
nostro Willielmo de Valencia avunculo nostro Gilberto de Clare
Comite Glouc. & Hertford Henrico de Lacy Comite Lincoln.
Johanne de Warenna Comite Surr. Ottone de Grandisono Roberto
Tibbotot Waltero de Bello Campo Willielmo de Monte Revelli
Petro de Chaumpnent Ricardo de Bosco & aliis
Dat' per manum nostram apud Westmonasterium vicesimo
tercio die Maii anno regni nostri decimo octavo (1325)
And said Cecilia by Henry Bradley her attorney came and
defended her right when, &c., And says that a certain Nicholas
Yue of Westkyngton lately was seized of said manor of Thurle-
bere with its appurtenances in his demesne as of fee and thus
thereof seized gave said manor with its appurtenances to William
Bonevile chivaler and Margaret his wife for the lives of said Wil-
liam and Margaret So that after the death of said William and
Margaret the said manor with its appurtenances entirely shall
remain to the said Cecilia and Thomas son of said William Bone-
vile and Margaret formerly husband of the said Cecilia and to
the heirs male of the body of said Thomas issuing
So that if said Thomas die without heir male of his body
issuing then after the death of the said Thomas son of William
and Cecilia the said manor of Thurlebere with its appurtenances
entirely shall remain to the right heirs of said William Bonevile
for ever.
By virtue of which gift said William Bonevile and Margaret
were seized of said manor with appurtenances in their demesne
as of free tenement
And both the said William Bonevile and Margaret in such
state thereof seized as also the said Thomas son of William after-
wards died
Somerset £> Dorset Notes &• Queries. 7
And thus the said Cecilia says that she has nothing in the
said manor with appurtenances except for term of her life because
the reversion being thereof after the death of said Cecilia to a
certain John son and heir male of said Thomas son of William
now still living and in full life and the heirs male issuing from
said John son of Thomas and for default of issue male issuing
from the body of said John to a certain William Bonvile chivaler
kin and heir of said William Bonevile formerly husband of said
Margaret, that is to say, son of John son of said William Bonevile
husband of Margaret now surviving and being in full life and his
heirs for ever.
Without which John son of Thomas and William son of
John the said Cecilia says that she is not able to (deducere) lead
away that manor and appurtenances in the plea nor answer to the
said now Earl and requests help from said John son of Thomas
and William son of John, &c.
Whereupon the precept is to the Sheriff that he summon,
&c., said John son of Thomas and William son of John that they
be here in the octaves of St. Hilary to answer to said now
Earl together with said Cecilia of said plea if, &c.
The same day is given to said parties here.
Patent Roll No. 334, 15 Richard II, pt 2, m 13 (1392).
Pardon for trespass. To all to whom, &c., greeting Be it known
that whereas William de Monte Acuto Earl of Salisbury formerly
granted his manor of Thurlebere with appurtenances which of us
is held (in chief) to Thomas Payn now deceased to hold for life
of said Thomas And afterwards he likewise granted the reversion
of said manor to Thomas Strete to hold for life of said Thomas
Strete after the death of said Thomas Payn And afterwards the
said Thomas and Thomas granted all their estate in said manor
to William Bonevile chivalier and Margaret his wife and to
Thomas son of said William and Margaret Afterwards the said
Earl confirmed the estate which the said William Margaret and
Thomas son of said William Bonevile and Margaret had in said
manor
Subsequently the said William Bonevile, Margaret and
Thomas son of William and Margaret surrendered all their
estate in said manor to the said Earl and his heirs
And John Radeston, John Reynald, parson of the church of
Lymyngton, Henry Andreu, parson of the church of Lewenston,
Roger Carter, parson of the church of Wotton Fitzpayn, John
Passeware, parson of the church of Compton Hawe, John Hum-
fre, vicar of the church of Cheuton, Nicholas Yve, of West
Kyngton, Andrew Rydon, William Walssh, John Prestes, William
Lange of Axminstre, Henry Wotton, Thomas Brokhampton,
Thomas Saundre and William Lange, still living, and John Bit-
telgate and Thomas Gervays, now defunct, acquired the said
8 Somerset &• Dorset Notes &• Queries.
manor to hold to themselves and their heirs for ever from the
said Earl and William Bonevile and entered on said manor,
license for this not obtained
We of our special grace and for £20 which said William
Bonevile paid to us pardon the said trangression made therein
And grant and give licence for us and our heirs as much as
in us lies to said John, John, Henry, Roger, John, John, Nicho-
las, Andrew, William, John, William, Henry, Thomas, Thomas
and William, to have and to hold said manor to them and their
heirs of us and our heirs by the services thereof due and of right
accustomed for ever
And besides we grant and give licence to said John (and the
others) that they may give and grant said manor to William Bone-
vile and Margaret to hold for life of said William and Margaret
of us and our heirs by the services aforesaid
So that after the death of said William and Margaret said
manor shall remain to Thomas son of said William and Margaret
and to Cecilia wife of said Thomas son of William and Margaret,
to hold to him and the heirs male of the body of said Thomas son
of Wiliam and Margaret issuing to hold of us and our heirs by the
services thereof due and accustomed for ever
And if said Thomas son of William and Margaret shall die
without heir male of his body issuing, the said manor shall re-
main to the right heirs of said William to hold of us, &c., for
ever
We not wishing that said Earl, John, (and the others) or the
said William Bonevile, Margaret, Thomas son of William and
Margaret and Cecilia or their heirs by reason of the premises be
molested by us or our successors or our ministers in any way
whatsoever
In which thing, &c.
Tested at Westminster 8 May.
Plaintiffs Pedigree
Simon de Monte Acuto =
to whom King Edward II
gave the Manor of Thurle-
bere in tail
William de Monte Acuto = Simon
seized in tail temp, Edward III. |
1
iiam
h., d. s. p.
John
brother and heir
\
John
s.&h.
7
Thomas de Monte Acuto
Earl of Salisbury
Plaintiff
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* f 6t f& »->^kt <•» /•' t*-
tr*» <{ n /i.
LETTER FROM TREGONWELL FRAMPTON
TO LORD TOWNSHEND.
TREGONWELL FRAMPTON.
Somerset &» Dorset Notes &> Queries.
Defendant's Pedigree
Nicholas Yve of West Kington was
seized of the Manor of Thurlebere in
his demesne as of fee and gave it to
William de Bonevile = Margaret
Thomas Bonevile = Cecilia = William John Bonevile
I Defendant Cheyne
I 2nd husband
I
John Bonevile |
*. & h. under age William Bonevile
3 Henry VI living 3 Henry VI
3. COKER OF STOUR PAYNE. — In the pedigree of this family
given in Hutchins (I, 310), the plaintiff referred to in the follow-
ing Chancery suit is called " Adbee," whereas the name is un-
doubtedly Odber. See ante. III, 95, 146, for adinon of estate of
Tho. Fry in 1625 and 6 to Robert Odber of Christchurch, gent.
ODBER v. COKER (O. 3 No. 22).
John Odber of Weeke in the parish of Christchurch co.
Southants complaining Whereas Roger Coker late of Ash in the
parish of Stower Payne esq. co. Dorset lately deceased owed to
your orator (who married one of his sisters) ^65 and to John
Odber, Richard Odber and Edward Odber your orator's sons
£IQ apiece for legacies bequeathed by Jane Coker widow their
grandmother and mother of the said Roger Coker deceased her
Ex'or. The said Roger Coker demised his farm of Lazerton to
his brother Robert Coker in trust by deed of 17 April, 1 1 Charles,
and died 10 days after intestate leaving ^800 personal estate
Robert Coker hath since died intestate and one Richard Coker
son and heir of the said Roger Coker hath since the decease of
his uncle taken out adinon of his estate.
Answer of Richard Coker — does not know that his father
Roger Coker owed ^65 as in the bill. Roger Coker's manor and
farm of Lazerton Robert Coker of Ash grandfather of defendant
by deed of i May, 1617, worth ^170 per annum settled for his
use and that of Jane his wife for their lives and for the said Roger
Coker father of this defendant. Robert Coker conveyed his
estate to him Richard Coker 19 Charles. The said farm de-
scended to his father and to him and defendant has 4 brothers
and sisters.
Greenhill Ho., Weymouth. V. L. OLIVER.
4. MATILDA, RELICT OF PHILIP DE DONNE. — We have been
favoured by Mr. Benett-Stanford, of Hatch House, Tisbury, Wilts,
with a sight of the document a copy of which is subjoined. It
ro Somerset &• Dorset Notes <S- Queries.
is an indenture of the year 1366, by which Matilda, the relict of
Philip de Donne, conveys to Richard de Vayrefyld and Johanne
his wife, her land at Nyderebyroh in the parish of Stoke for their
lives, or the longest liver of them, at a rent of 4 shillings a year
to the said Matilda, her heirs and assigns. The seal is missing.
Mr. Benett-Stanford enquires if any of our readers can identify
the parish of Stoke named above. The mention of Nyderebyroh
(Netherbury) seems to suggest Stoke Abbot, in Dorset. But this
requires confirmation, as Netherbury is not in Stoke Abbot,
though adjoining it.
DORSET EDITOR.
Pateat universis per presentes quod ego Matilda relicta Phi-
lippi de Donne tradidi concessi et hoc presente Scripto c[onfir-
mavi] Ricardo de Vayrefyld et Johanne uxori sue totam terram
meam apud Nyderebyroh in parochia de Stoke Ha[bendam et
tenend]am totam predictam terram cum pratis pasturis et pascuis
bosci aquis viis semitis et communitatibus et cum omnibus aliis
[juribus ?] et libertatibus ad dictam terram spectantibus prefatis
Ricardo et Johanne uxori sue a die confeccionis presentium usque
ad [terminum] vite.eorum et eorum alterius diusius viventis libere
quiete bene et in pace de me Matilda heredibus meis et meis as-
signatis [redjdendo inde annatim mihi Matilde heredibus meis
et assignatis iidem Ricardus et Johanna uxor sua quatuor solidos
ad quatuor anni [terminos] principales equis porcionibus pro
omnibus serviciis secularibus sectis curie molendinis tolnetis fari-
nagiis et omnimodis aliis exaccionibus et [deman]dis Et pre-
dicti Ricardus et Johanna uxor sua habebunt Housebote et Hay-
bote sufficienter de bosco meo ibidem sn Was* Et predictam ter-
ram in tarn bono statu dimittent sicud fuit in tempore sue recep-
tionis et unam domum sustentabunt Et ego vero predicta Matilda
heredes mei et mei assignati totam predictam terram cum omni-
bus pertinenciis suis prefatis Ricardo et Johanne uxori sue ad
totam vitam eorum contra omnes gentes warrantizare acquietare
et defendere tenemur In cujus rei testimonium huic presenti
scripto sigilla nostra alternatim apposuimus Hiis testibus Willel-
mo de Byntton [PDyntton] Johanne Torman Waltero de Byntton
[PDyntton] Johanne de Lockyssore Symone atte Hylle et aliis.
Datum apud Nyderebyroh die Sabbati proximo post festum Sancti
Germani Episcopi et confessoris Anno Regni Regis Edwardi
tercii a conquestu Anglic quadragesimo.
5. DERIVATION OF CASTLE NEROCHE. (Vol. XII, 337).—
In his article on the excavations at this place (Proc. S. A . &> N. H .
Soc.. 4.9, ii, 23), Mr. St. G. Gray collected twenty one variations
of Neroche and sixteen of Roche, and it is strange that the one-
* Perhaps Sine Vasto.
Somerset S- Dorset Notes &• Queries. n
syllable form utilized by Mr. Greswell, Racche or Racke, (this last
not appearing in the list), is not found before the middle of the
fifteenth century, when it appears in William of Worcester c.
1470, and the Patent Rolls of Ed. IV. The earliest reference yet
printed, in the Close Roll of 1224, gives Nirechich Forest, and
the earliest reference to the shorter form is in the Patent Roll of
Ed. I (1281-1292) as Recchiche. That an unmeaning prefix
should be added to a name is in the highest degree improbable,
while on the other hand a shortening of words by common usage
is a frequent experience ; and it is therefore likely that Neroche,
or a variation, probably of three syllables, is the earlier and the
true form.
The Welsh derivation suggested is doubtful for several rea-
sons. Mr. Gray describes the pottery found in the excavations
as that " which for ordinary domestic purposes was used for two
or three centuries after Norman times without developing to any
appreciable extent ; " and " in cutting through the rampart and
ditch, we had conclusive evidence of Norman or medieval origin."
To call the remains ' early ' Norman is not borne out by the
results. In Domesday Staple is entered as in the hand of Robert
de Mortain, but there is no reference to a castle as in the cases
of Montacute and Dunster. So there is nothing either in local
history or in the remains to preclude the view that the building
(whatever form it may have taken) was one of the adulterine
castles run up in the anarchy of Stephen's reign and destroyed
soon after 1154. But any date after Domesday separates Castle
Neroche by four centuries from the time when Ina conquered
South and West Somerset from the West Welsh and fixed his
frontier town at Taunton ; and it is very improbable that there
was sufficient of the Welsh tongue left in the district after such a
lapse of time to designate that part of a building which the in-
habitants of Stogursey could call a bailey ; and the form ' Rach '
is not found in any record until three centuries later again.
Again it is perhaps not likely that the derivation should be
sought in the Welsh tongue, ancient or modern. Owing to the
scarcity of early specimens of the language used in Britain before
the English conquest, authorities are not in agreement about the
local positions of Goidelic and Brythonic Celtic dialects. From
analogy with other countries which are or have been inhabited
by many semi-independent tribes, it is likely that the different
nations in Britain would use dialects differing in greater or less
degree. These differences would tend to increase during the
centuries after the English invasions had isolated the surviving
tribes from each other. Also, while bearing in mind that people
of different ethnographic peculiarities may still use the same lan-
guage, it must not be forgotten that researches in this district
have brought to light the existence of a certain element of non-
Celtic people, who as the aboriginal dwellers in the land may
12 Somerset <&• Dorset Notes <§* Queries.
have handed on their names of localities to the Celtic conquerors
and settlers, the earlier Goidelic and later Brythonic tribes. The
map given by Sir John Rhys in Celtic Britain (1884) shows Goi-
delic Celts on either shore of the Severn sea; but Dr. Rice
Holmes brings evidence to prove that the Dumnonians were not
Goidelic but Brythonic Celts (Ancient Britain and Julius Caesar,
p. 447). It seems therefore necessary to regard rather the Cor-
nish language as that which has the closest affinity to the old
Dumnonian tongue ; and, as might be expected from the historic
fact that many Britons fled into Armorica or Brittany to escape
the English, Cornish and Breton are also closely connected, while
they both differ very considerably from Welsh. (Art., Celt, Encycl.
Brit., Camb. edition). It is true that the Rev. W. A. Jones in an
article entitled "The application of Philology to Archaeological
Investigations " (Som. Arch. Soc. Proc., V, ii, 77) endeavoured to
provide Welsh derivations for local place names ; but the results
cannot be regarded as satisfactory. He deduced Dunster from
Dun-ystrad, ' the fort in the vale,' but in Domesday Moione's
manor appears as Torre, which seems little akin to ystrad. In
the same paragraph the tower of ' Cunnegar ' is provided with
a derivation from cyngaer, ' the fortification in advance,' whereas
the aforesaid tower was built as a ' folly ' by Henry F. Luttrell in
1775, (Maxwell Lyte, Dunster i, 229), and the ' coneygore ' was
to provide rabbits for the castle kitchen. The weakness of this
system has been so well indicated by Mr. Henry Bradley in Eng-
lish Place Names in ' Essays and Studies by Members of the
English Association' (Oxford, 1910) that the section may be
given in full.
" It is natural that curiosity with regard to the meaning of
these enigmatical (i.e. topographical) names should be widely
felt, and the writers who have attempted to satisfy this curiosity
are innumerable. Unfortunately nearly everything that has been
written on the subject is worthless. (Mr. Bradley excepts I.
Taylor's Names and tJieir Histories}. With very few exceptions,
the scholars who have possessed the philological knowledge re-
quisite for the scientific treatment of the subject have been so
conscious of its difficulties that they have preferred to leave it
alone. It has therefore fallen into the hands of unqualified per-
sons, for many of whom it seems to have an unaccountable at-
traction. Their usual procedure is to ransack the dictionaries of
Anglo-Saxon, Danish, Welsh, and other languages, and if they
can find words in any of those which bear some resemblance to
the syllables of the name to be explained, and which, when joined
together without the slightest regard to grammatical rules, can
be made to yield something like a plausible sense, they imagine
that they have solved the problem of its etymology
It must be admitted that the explanations arrived at in
this haphazard fashion are often much more interesting than
Somerset <S» Dorset Notes &> Queries. 13
those which are the result of methodical research. And no
wonder ! An etymologist who can operate at will with the words
of half a dozen languages, and has no inconvenient grammatical
knowledge to hamper him in putting them together, is able to
make a name mean almost anything he likes ; and if he is a per-
son of taste he will of course choose to find in it some bit of pic-
turesque description, a reference to ancient beliefs and supersti-
tions, or a memorial of some historical event. Fact is usually less
entertaining than fiction, and for this reason false etymologies are
to most people more attractive than true ones. An opinion
which is widely prevalent, and sometimes frankly avowed, is that
certainty is not attainable in the interpretation of place-names, and
that therefore it is absurd to reject a pretty or amusing explana-
tion merely because philological pedants, for some unintelligible
reason, choose to assert that it is untenable
That the matter is not of the highest importance may be
freely admitted ; but as false local etymology has in the past
been the source of a great deal of historical error, so sound local
etymology may sometimes be a valuable help in the discovery of
historical truth. At any rate, if the subject is worth studying at
all, it is worth studying with an honest desire to arrive at the
truth, even though the truth should turn out, as it sometimes will,
to be disappointingly common-place."
A.
6. NOTES ON AN UNPUBLISHED MAP OF THE SOUTH PART
OF DORSET AND PART OF HANTS. TEMP. HENRY VIII. —
Mr. Jonathan Nield,the well known Print-seller of 14, Great
Russell Street, Bedford Square, W.C., lately circulated copies by
hand of a colored plan, temp. Henry VIII, now in the British
Museum, of the South part of Dorset and part of Hants, the coast-
line extending from Lyme Regis to the Needles.
This highly interesting map, (which, it must be confessed,
shews strange distortion and disproportion), is, I believe, the
oldest map of Dorset extant^). It is 4ft. nins. long by ift.
gins. high. The survey was, no doubt, made in consequence of
a threatened invasion, or of one of the many continental wars in
which Henry VIII was engaged. Both Sandsfoot Castle, Wey-
mouth, and the Castle at Castleton, Portland, are shewn in the
map, and, as they are referred to by Leland in his Itinerary in
1538, the map must have been made subsequently to that date.
The South point of the compass is at the top of the map;
the North at the bottom. The towns and villages are shewn, as
(i). The oldest map of the County mentioned in Mayo's Bibliotheca Dor-
setiensis is the following : — " Cornubia Devonia...Dorcestria &c. (1620 ?) " 100.
[This does not profess to be an exhaustive list. DORSET EDITOR.]
14 Somerset £• Dorset Notes &> Queries.
also the distance in miles from one place to another (2). The
only seats indicated are Corfe Castle, Canford and Chideock.
One of the most striking features consists of the numerous
elevated flaming beacons on the hilltops, with the ladders lead-
ing up to them. The following are figured on the South-west
coast of Dorset, and the positions are here given as nearly as can
now be determined, viz. (a) One on the Nothe point, at the South-
eastern entrance to Weymouth harbour : (b) Two, near together,
at the North-east end of Portland, apparently on the hill-top
called The Verne: (c) One eastwards of Wyke Regis parish Church,
(no doubt, the beacon-mound still remaining, in excellent pre-
servation, in the field called " Beacon " (3) on Wyke Regis Knap :
(d) Four, between Wyke Regis and Swyre, (the Westernmost one
near Swyre being close to the sea) : (e) Two, between Swyre and
a hill South-west of Abbotsbury : (f) One at Burton : (g) One on
a promontory South of Chideock : (h) Two, near together, South
of Charmouth : and (i) One on a hill East of Lyme Regis. Thus,
no less than fifteen beacons are shewn between the Nothe and
Lyme Regis, (that part of the coast being, no doubt, considered
the most open to invasion) ; whereas, six beacons only are figured
between the Needles and Poole (or Wareham) and Melcombe Regis.
These six are respectively at or near North Haven Point, some
locality a little East of Poole, near Bournemouth and Christ-
church, and the remaining two between Bournemouth and the
locality referred to above as being East of Poole. I suppose
that the actual positions of many of these ancient beacons are
now forgotten.
Some crosses are drawn on the coast line near Weymouth
and are very conspicuous. There is one on the Nothe point,
one at Bincleaves, another a short distance north-east of Mel-
combe Regis, and a fourth further north, probably near the late
Preston Coastguard Station. Why these crosses should be clus-
tered around Weymouth is puzzling, for no crosses appear else-
where on the map. Probably they were intended to represent
gallows erected for the execution of pirates, who infested the
English Channel at this time. There is a loose letter, (from the
Sherren Papers), amongst the Weymouth and Melcombe Regis
Borough Archives, (undated, but written, apparently, in 1582),
in which Robert Pitt and J. Mounsell state that "the pirates had
cut down the gallows where the pyratt was hanged at Studlan,
(2). Thus, Charmouth is stated to be two miles from Lyme, Chideock
three miles from Charmouth, Bridport two miles from Chideock, Burton two
miles from Bridport, Swyre two miles from Burton, Abbotsbury four miles
from Swyre, Sutton Poyntz seven miles from Portland, Creek of Lulworth six
miles from Portland, St. Alban's Head sixteen miles from Portland.
(3). In some proceedings before the Justices of Weymouth and Melcombe
Regis in 1648. this field is called " Beacon." Weymouth Borough Records.
Somerset <S> Dorset Notes &• Queries. 15
and that, if reforfnacon be not had the Somer, no man will be
able to travell," which means that the Channel would be impas-
sable for Merchant Shipping. The lawless South-west pirates
must have regarded the hanging of their confrere at Studland as
an intolerable eyesore, and so they landed and cut down the gal-
lows. Executions of Pirates were not uncommon. I may quote
in proof, a quarto pamphlet, formerly in the Thorpe Collection,
intituled, "The Lives Apprehension Arraignments and Execu-
tions of the Nineteen Pirates Captains Harris, Jennings, Lan-
caster, Downes, Halse, and others." But to give the Pirates
their due, it is but fair to add, that it was one of their confrater-
nity, Capt. Fleminge, who first observed the Spanish Armada
approaching our coast and gave public warning.
A few other topographical points of interest remain to be
mentioned. The drawing of Melcombe Regis depicts buildings
apparently intended for the Monastery in Maiden Street, with the
tower which was erected by the Friars ; the Church on the
Chapelhaye is not indicated ; Portland Race is marked thus
"The Race of Portland, which is in length 5 miles"; that part
of the English Channel now known as the West Bay, is called
"The Sake," perhaps in error for "The Lake"; curiously
enough, the Nothe is designated "The Black Rock, 3 miles from
Portland " (4) ; a fort, (probably a fanciful one), is shewn on the
northern face of the Nothe, towards Weymouth Harbour ; " Small-
mouth " is so named, and a house and passage-boat, (the ancient
" Passage " to and from Portland), are drawn, the locality being
referred to thus, " Lime house where the passage is to Portland."
On the North-east side of Portland a considerable landslip ap-
pears, seemingly, the " East Weirs " A chapel is shewn on St.
Alban's Head ; Poole appears as partly walled in, with an em-
battled gateway at its North-east side. Leland, in his Itinerary,
refers to the town wall and an embattled gate at Poole.
An interesting feature is a spirited drawing of the spire
which formerly surmounted the central tower of Wimborne Min-
ster and suddenly fell, as recorded by Coker, A.D. 1600. This
spire is shown on the Corporate Seal of the Governors of Wim-
borne School, but I am not aware that any other representation
exists.
I desire to acknowledge the valuable help of Mr. F. J. Barnes
and his son Mr. S. J, Barnes, of Glenthorn, Weymouth, in the
preparation of this paper. These notes have been compiled and
the accompanying illustration taken from a copy of the map
belonging to Mr. Barnes.
Weymouth. W. BOWLES BARRETT.
(4). Black Rock was the name of a cliff about 370 yards North of the pre-
sent Weymouth Railway Terminus.
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2o Somerset &• Dorset Notes &• Queries.
Somerset, The Saxon Conquest of, by the Rev. C. W. Whistler
and Albany F. Major. The Antiquary, Oct., Nov. and Dec.
191 1.
Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society. Pro-
ceedings during the year 1910, Vol. 56. Demy 8vo. Parti,
xii-f-i22 pp. Part II, 186 pp. with The Mollusca of Somer-
set, xlii4-i4 pp. and 2 illus. Taunton.
Spencer (J. Houghton) Structural Notes on Taunton Castle,
with 2 plans and diagrams. Demy 8vo., iv-f 1 2 pp. Taunton.
Street (Rev. Preb. J.) The Mynster Pulpit. Some Gleanings
from Twelve Years of Ministry at Ilminster. Crown 8vo.,
iv+i48 pp.
Swanton (G. E. W.) The Mollusca of Somerset, xlii-f 14 pp.
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Som. Arch. Society, Vol. 56.
Tate (W. J.) An Afternoon at Athelney. Somerset Men in Lon-
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Summer on the Quantocks. Somerset Men in London.
A nnual Report, 1910-11.
Osiers at Athelney. Country Gentleman's Estate Book, 1911.
• Whortleberries and Whortleberrying. Country Gentleman's
Estate Book, 1911.
The Preservation of Wild Plants and Ferns. Country Gen-
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The late W. L. Murdoch, his Early Matches in England.
Bristol Times and Mirror, 28 Feb., 1911.
West Country Easter Cakes. Times and Mirror, 15 April,
1911.
Early Volunteering Days in Somerset. Times and Mirror,
29 Sept., IQII.
Old Somerset Rustics. Times and Mirror, 29 Dec., 1911.
Taunton, Calendar of Wills and Administrations, issued to Sub-
scribers only, by the British Record Society. Part IV,
96 pp. (289-384).
Taunton, The Parish Church and Church Life in, 1911, illus.
Demy 8vo., 112 pp.
Thompson (H. S.) Alpine Flowers of Europe, with Cultural
Hints and with 64 coloured plates painted from nature.
Timsbury and its Church, illus. Times and Mirror, 28 Oct., 1911.
Tylee (Edward S.) The Witch Ladder. A Story of Somerset in
the later days of Victoria. Crown 8vo., 314 pp.
Ven House. Somerset, illus. Country Life, 24 June, 1911.
Walton in Gordano and its Churches, illus. Times and Mirror,
25 Nov., 1911.
Weston-super-Mare for Health and Pleasure. An Ideal Holiday
Centre, illus. Weston-super-Mare.
Somerset <§* Dorset Notes & Queries. 21
Whistler (Rev. C. W.) Fish-dogs : after Glatts. Badminton
Magazine, Jan., 1911.
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i6mo., iv+88 pp. Bristol.
Winford and its Church, illus. Times and Mirror, 9 Dec., 1911.
EDWIN PEARCE.
8. MELCOMBE REGIS PARISH REGISTERS. — In going through
the Melcombe Regis Registers some little time back, I copied
out the subjoined entries, which are apparently private notes by
the Parish Clerk on the doings of his sons James and Jaspar. I
thought they might amuse the readers of S. &D. N. &> Q.\ as
far as I remember they were scattered up and down the Registers
pretty much as the dates suggest.
4 James came home September the 2-1704 and her went for
London April-z-iyos to goe to sea with ca Jon wall.'
'James came into portlen Rode on the -n day of June- 1707
bound for wnes (?) and zante thye saild againe ye 1 3-day.'
' the great storme both at sea & Land the greatest that ever
any man knew in Ingland was on the 26 day of nouember at night
in the year-i7O3.'
' Jespar set forth in to Roode with mr John Wad ye 10 day of
August and they set sail for London August ye 26 day in ye year
1704.'
'Jespar set sail with Mr hellyar for London April 25th 1705
and hee came home to weymouth July ye 9 day..
' Jespar entred him selfe to goe in ye shrewsbery January
ye 26 1705 they get sayl from Spit hin march ye 18 1706.'
' Jespar was turnd ouer on Bord of ye crown the first day of
february 1707-8 and he came home from that ship octobe 29 1708
and he set forth for London with mr JohnRoman April 12 1709.'
' Jespar came home with mr Roman July 15 1709.'
' Jaspar went to scool to mr uincent October 4 1709.'
' Jaspar Bought a pare of Looms of Thomas wattey the 19
day of April 1710 and went to worke at his trade for him selfe.'
' Jaspar shipt him selfe with Cap Edward Arnald in the unity
a transtport July 13 1710 & they saild the 21 day and he came
home they 1 1 day of nouember.'
If there ever was a bad halfpenny it was ' Jespar ', and even
the new name of JASper' given him at his reformation in 'orto-
ber 1709 ' does not seem to have weaned him from his roving
and homing habits.
One or two other interesting entries are : —
BURIALS 1691. Memorandum that on ye xjx day of Sept was
Landed here Two hundred & od men who came pri-
soners from ffrance and were for ye most part Sick in
22 Somerset &• Dorset Notes <§• Queries.
ye fflux soe that many died as also many Towns people
of ye same Distemper.
(Every man marked * was a stranger.)
' King Charls the 2d lived in Weymouth 18 Septem, '65.'
' King Charles ye 2d liv'd in this Corporation Sept. 18, 1665.'
H. F. NAPIER.
9. INVENTORY OF URSULA DYER. (X, p. 147.) —The fol-
lowing Inventory relates to the wife of William Dyer (eldest son
of Richard and Elizabeth Dyer), who was heir to his uncle Sir
Lodovick Dyer, Baronet. She was buried at Hailweston, Co.
Hunts, 2 July, 1696.
The Cottage, Westhope, Craven Arms. E. H. MARTIN.
Archdeacon of Huntingdon's Court. A true and perfect In-
ventory of all the goods and chattells of Madm Vrsula Dyer, late
of Haleweston in the county of Huutingdon, widdow, deceased,
Taken out and appresed this 4 July, 1696.
£ s. d.
Imprimis, her purse and Wearinge Apparell . . 40. oo. oo
Item, in the Chamber over the Parlour three Trunkes
of Linnen with other Lumber and Linnen in the
Wash . . . . . . 30 oo oo
Item, in the Chamber over the Hall one Bedsted with
one sett of Curtains one feather bed and other
Bedding on Quilt with Blanketts, three peices of
Tapestry one Looking Glass one Table and two
Stands six chairs . . . . 25 oo oo
Item, in the Chamber over the kitchen one Bedstead
one fetherbed with other bedding one Sett of
Curtains one Scrittore, to Lookinglasses one
chest of Drawers one Table, ffoure chaires with
other ffurniture two peices of Tapestry one Cup-
board of Plate . . . . 90 oo oo
Item, in the Closset and dressing Room Hanings
Curtaines a Table with other furniture . . 05 oo oo
Item, in the Green Chamber one Bedstead Curtaines
and Bedding with hanginges and other ffurniture 15 oo oo
Item, in the Kitchen Staircase one Clock , . 01 10 oo
Item, in the Garrets six bedsteds with bedding and
other Lumber . . . . 20 oo oo
Item, in the Parlour nine Chaires one Couch one Table
two Stands one Lookinglass another small Table
and other ffurniture . . . . . . 07 oo oo
Item, in the Hall two tables one Couch six chaires
with other ffurniture .. .. 02 10 oo
Item, in the Kitchen Brass Pewter one Table ffive
chaires one Jack a Grate with other ffurniture .. 15 oo oo
Somerset & Dorset Notes & Queries. 23
Item, in the Brew-house Two Coppers with Brewing
Vessells and other Lumber hogsheads & bottles
in the cellar. . .. .. 20 oo oo
Item, in the Coach-house two Coaches In the Barne
a parcell of Hay and a parcell of Wood in the
Stable two Coach-horses with other things . . 35 oo oo
Item, the Pictures in the house . . . . 10 oo oo
Item, debts good and bad .. .. .. 150 oo oo
466 oo oo
Apprized the day and year above
Written by us,
Rob: Throckmorton
Richd. Dyer.
Ric: Hatley.
10. A WRINGTON PARISH BILL. — The following bill has
been forwarded to us by Colonel Long, with the kind permission
of Mrs. Frederic Wood, to whom it belongs. T. Webb, the cre-
ditor, was landlord of the Golden Lion at Wrington, Somerset, and
Wm. Councell, the debtor, is probably a parish constable or over-
seer of the poor.
The bill illustrates the well-known fact that the consumption
of beer and other drinkables on every conceivable occasion was
necessary to expedite the transaction of parish business. The
most interesting items are
1. The appraising of the Pedlar's Basket. Had it been
taken to pay a fine, or was it a Deodand ?
2. The apprehension of a man who had gone as a substi-
tute [for a person drawn to serve in the militia] though already
a soldier, and therefore apparently disqualified to act in this
capacity.
3. Expenses on Club days, at a meeting regarding Bridle
Paths, and for dinner at a Highway meeting, — all occasions for
refreshing the inner man.
4. One entry suggests some latent humour. " Beer when
Corfield was put in the Stocks." The unlucky Corfield had, pre-
sumably, exceeded in his potations, but more beer was still
needed to encourage those who were at the trouble of placing
him in durance vile.
Mr. Wm. Councell
To T.Webb £. s. d,
Expences while the z Sailors was in your
Care, Beer 23. ud., Rum & Milk 23., Rum
& Water is. zd., Lodging is. [In Margin,
Went to Jail.] . . . . . . o. 7. i
24 Somerset &> Dorset Notes &• Queries.
[Expences] when Mr. Yong's Boy and the
Girl was in yr Care. . .. . . o. 4. 10
Left on Mr. Plumley's Bill . . . . o. 5. 9
Feb. 19 Beer . . .. .. . . o. i. 2
1818. 4 pts Beer for thatcher, i Quart with Mr.
Gallop . . . . . . . . o. i . 9
When S. Bockwell was in Costody . . o. 4. 4
Clubb day, Gin & Water . . . . o. 2. o
June 24. Beer, Bed, &c.,when the man was in Costody
for stealing the Cow . . . . o. 3. 6
Lent same time . . . . . . o. 6. o
25. Beer & Cider when T. Ashley was in Costody o. 1.4
26. Beer had when Willy was in Costody for
stealing Bacon .. .. .. o. i. 9
July ii. Beer with Mr. Bayly .. .. o. i. 3
1 8. Beer had when C. Lovell was in Costody . . o. i. n
Do. & Porter .. .. .. o. i. 9
Aug. 31. Beer, &c., for the 4 apprasers who appraised
the Pedler's Baskett . . . . o. 4. i
1820, June Cider&Lodging when Breane was in Cos-
tody .. .. .. .. o. 3. i
Sep. Beer, Gin & water &c. with Porter of Paradise
Hous .. .. .. .. o. 6. ii
Beer when H. Parsley was in Costody . . o. i. 2
Dec. Beer gave to the Ringers .. . . o. i. 2
May 21 Beer, &c., when the man was in Costody for
1821 goin substitute, who was already a soldier . . o. 3. i£
Oct. ist. Beer gave Beacham .. . . o. o. 7
Beer & Rum & water when the men was in
Costody for stealing Hots (?) . . . . o. 4. i^
Nov. 5. Gin & Beer gave your men wich came from
Bristol . . . . . . . . o. 3. o
Beer, &c., when old Burnill went to Jail . . o. 3.11^
Beer, &c., when T. Hill went to Shepton . . o. 2. 9
Deer. Beer, &c., at a Meeting Respecting the Bridle
Paths, &c. .. .. . . o. 10. o
Oct. 24 Taken from of the wall had at different times o. 9. 2^
1822
Nov. 8 Gin & Water, Beer & Cider, when Jenkins
was taken up .. .. . . o. i. 6£
2 Quarts Beer gave ye men one of them . . o. i . 2
1 1 . Beer & Gin & water, do. Brandy & water had
with Mr. Hillier .. .. .. o. 5. 9
Dec. 6. Dinners at Highway Meeting . . . . o. 6. o
9. Rum & Gin & Water & Beer . . . . o. 2. 6^
Feb. Beer when Corfield was put in Stocks . . o. i. 4
1823
May At the Clubb & at different Times . . o. 6. 10
ani* Bu^rt^* far
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aBarrow, Rufus, Esq., 6, St. Simon's Avenue, Putney, S.W.
Adams, E. F., Esq., 2.91, King's Road, Chelsea, S.W.
Alford, Miss, Heale, Curry Rivel, Taunton.
Allan, Rev. G. A., Old Prebendal House, Cudworth, Ilminster.
Allen, Fredk. I., Esq., 2, Rector Street, New York City, U.S.A.
Allen, F. J., Esq., M.D., 8, Halifax Road, Cambridge.
Allen, Mr. E. G., King Edward Mansions, 15, Grape Street,
Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C. (For Peabody Institute, Balti-
more, and Library Company, Philadelphia, U.S.A.). Two
Copies.
A.nderson, A., Esq., 30, Oxford Square, W.
Antiquaries, Society of, Burlington House, W.
Austen, Rev. E. G., Chaffcombe Rectory, Chard.
Bailward, H., Esq., Horsington Manor, Templecombe, Bath.
Baker, T. H., Esq., 91, Brown Street, Salisbury.
Balson, W. L., Esq., 219, Bompart Avenue, Webster Groves, St.
Louis County, Mo., U.S.A.
Bankes, E. R., Esq., Norden, Corfe Castle.
Barnes, Rev. W. Miles, Queen's Avenue, Dorchester.
Barrett} W. Bowles, Esq., 2, Belfield Terrace, Weymouth.
Bartelot, Rev. R. G., Fordington Vicarage, Dorchester.
Ti.
Baskett, S. R., Esq., Evershot, Dorchester.
Bath and Wells, Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of, Palace, Wells.
Batten, Henry B., Esq., The Executors of the late, Aldon, Yeovil.
Batten, Col. H. Gary, Abbots Leigh, Bristol.
Batten, Col. J. Mount, Mornington House, West Kensington, W.
Batten-Pooll, Mrs., Road Manor, Bath.
Beale, F., Esq., Bank House, Clevedon.
Beaminster Institute, c/o Richard Hine, Esq., Beaminster, Dorset.
Benett-Dampier, Capt. W. H., na, Linden Gardens, Hyde
Park, W.
Benett-Stanford, J., Esq., Hatch House, Tisbury, Wilts.
Berry,O.C. de, Esq., The Mount, Hadley Common, Barnet, Herts.
Blake, E. J., Esq., The Old House, Crewkerne.
Blathwayt, Lieut.-Col. Linley, Eagle House, Batheaston, Bath.
Boodle, R. W., Esq., 7, Pershore Road, Birmingham.
Bowen, Miss, " Wentwood," Clevedon, Somerset.
Bower, H. S., Esq., Fontmell Parva, Shillingston, Blandford.
Bristol Central Library, College Green, Bristol.
Broadley, A. M., Esq., The Knapp, Bradpole. Bridport.
Broadmead, W. B., Esq., Enmore Park, Bridgwater.
Brooke, C. B., Esq., Berea, 20, Aberdeen Park, Highbury, N.
Brownen, G., Esq., Talnas, Grove Road East, Christchurch.
Buckpitt, E. J. W., Esq., Sparacre, Bridport.
Bull, Rev. T. W., Charlecote, Lansdown, Bath.
Bullen, Col. J. B. S., Catherston, Charmouth.
Bush, T. S., Esq., 20, Camden Crescent, Bath.
Bulleid, A., Esq., F.S.A., Midsomer Norton, Bath.
Bulley, Mrs., senr., Marston Hill, Fairford, Gloucestershire.
Burnell, C. E., Esq., High Street, Shepton Mallet.
Carey, Lieut-Col. J. H. Carteret, Castle Carey, Guernsey.
Chadwyck-Healey, The Worshipful Sir C.E.H., K.C.B., F.S.A.,
Wyphurst, Cranley, Surrey.
Cheney, E. J., Esq., i, High Beach, Felixstowe, Suffolk.
Church, Rev. Canon, F.S.A., Wells, Somerset.
Clarence, L. B., Esq., Coaxden, Axminster.
Clark, W. S., Esq., Street, Somerset.
Clements, H. J. B., Esq., Killadoon, Celbridge, Ireland.
Clench, H., Esq., 78, Worsley Road, Leytonstone.
Coleman, Rev. Preb. J., The Abbey, Romsey.*
Coles, Mr. John, junr., 73, Broadway, Frome.
Colfox, Miss, Westmead, Bridport.
Colfox, T. A., Esq., Coneygar, Bridport.
Collett, Rev. E., Retford. (Two copies).
Colville, H. K., Esq., Loders Court, Bridport.
Commin, Mr. J. G., 230, High Street, Exeter.
Cornish, Miss H. M., 32, Victoria Avenue, Surbiton, Surrey.
Cornish, R., Esq., Cedar House, Axminster.
Cornish, Messrs. J, E., Ltd., 16, St. Ann's Square, Manchester.
Cottell, W. H., Esq., Clarence House, Loughton, Essex.
Crespi, Dr., Cooma, Poole Road, Wimborne.
Crisp, F. A., Esq., Grove Park Press, 270, Walworth Road, S.E.
Cross, Rev. J., Bailie House, Wimborne.
Dacombe, J. M. J., Esq., 27, Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth.
Daniel, Rev. Preb. W. E., Horsington Rectory, Templecombe.*
Davis, Rev. F. N., Crowell Rectory, Wallingford.
Deacon, Edw., Esq., Bridgeport, Conn., U.S.A.
Dicker, Rev. C. W. H., Pydeltrenthide Vicarage, Dorchester.
Digby, Rt. Honble. Lord, Minterne, Dorchester.
Digby, Commander the Honble. Gerald, Lewcombe Manor, Dor-
chester.
Dodderidge, Rev.S. E.,Thornbury Rectory, Bromyard, Worcester.
Dorset County Museum, The Secretary of, Dorchester.
Downes, Harold, Esq., M.B., Ditton Lea, Ilminster.
Dundas, Ven. Archdeacon, Charminster, Dorchester.
Dyne, Rev. W. T., Vicarage, Evercreech, Bath.
Dyson, John, Esq., Moorlands, Crewkerne.
D welly, E,, Esq., Ardmor, Mill Lane, Herne Bay, Kent.
Eastmont, F. M., Esq., Drayton Court, Curry Rivel, Taunton.
Ernst, Mrs., Westcombe, Evercreech, Somerset.
Exeter Public Library, (H. Tapley Soper, Esq., F. R. Hist. S.,
City Librarian), Exeter.
* Member of the Committee.
Fairbrother, Miss E. H., c/o Manager of the London and Pro-
vincial Bank, Ltd., Paddington Branch, W.
Fane, Rt. Honble. Sir Spencer Ponsonby, K.C.B., Brympton,
Yeovil.
Farley, Rev. H., Overbury Road, Parkstone, Dorset.
Farrer, Rev. Preb. W., Chard Vicarage, Somerset.
Filleul, Rev. S. E. V., All Saints' Rectory, Dorchester.
Fletcher, W. J., Esq., Wimborne Minster.
Floyer, G. W., Esq., Stafford, Dorchester.
Fox, Rev. J. C., The Rectory, Templecombe, Bath.
Foxcroft, C. T., Esq., Hinton Charterhouse, Bath.
Fry, E. A., Esq., Thornhill, Kenley, Surrey.
Fry, G. S., Esq., Chesham.The Grove, Nether Street, Finchley, N.
Fry, Mrs. Thomas, Baglake, Litton Cheney, Dorchester.
Fuller, Mrs. S. R., c/o Brown, Shipley and Co.. 123, Pall Mall,
S.W.
Genge, H. A. P., Esq., Rogate Lodge, Surrey Road, Bournemouth
West.
Gibbs, H. M., Esq., Barrow Court, Flax Bourton, Somerset.
Glastonbury Antiquarian Society, c/o G. Swayne, Esq., The
Thatched Cottage, Glastonbury.
Goddard, Rev. W. C. G., Wold Rectory, Northampton.
Goodchild, Rev. W,, Berwick St. John Rectory, Salisbury.
Goodden, Col. J. R. P., Compton House, Sherborne.
Gould, A. W., Esq., Staverton, Briar Walk, Putney Park Lane,
S.W.
Guerin, Lieut-Col. T. W. M. de., Le Mont Durant, Guernsey.
Hamlet, Rev. Preb. J., Shepton Beauchamp, Ilminster.
Hammond, J. J., Esq., Mitre House, Salisbury.
Hancock, Rev. Preb. F., F.S.A., The Priory, Dunster.
Harbin, Rev. E. H. Bates, Newton Surmaville, Yeovil. *
Hare, Richard, Esq., 2, York Buildings, Clifton Road, Clifton,
Bristol.
Harrison, J. W., Esq., Hurst House, 64, Regent's Park Road,
N.W.
Hart, Lieut-Gen. Sir Reginald, V.C., K.C.B., K.C.V.O., Head
Quarters House, Pretoria, South Africa.
ix.
Hayward, Rev. Douglas LI., The Vicarage, Bruton, Somerset.
Hembry, F. W., Esq., Langford, Sidcup, Kent.
Henley, Col. Cornish, Leigh House, near Chard.
Henning, Rev. G. S., East Lydford Rectory, Taunton.
Hervey, Rev. S. H. A., 28, Angel Hill, Bury St. Edmunds.
Highmore, Sir N. J., Harbybrowe, Worcester Park, Surrey.
Hillman, Eduardo H., Esq., 13, Somers Place, Hyde Park, W.
Hine, Richard, Esq., Beaminster.
Hobhouse, Mrs., New Street, Wells, Somerset.
Hobhouse, The Right Honble. Henry, P.C., Hadspen House,
Castle Gary, Somerset.
Honnywill, Rev. J. E. W., Leigh-on-Mendip, Coleford, Bath.
Hoskyns, H. W. P., Esq., North Perrott Manor, Crewkerne.
Hudd, A. E., Esq., F.S.A., 108, Pembroke Road, Clifton.
Hughes, Rev. F. L., Lydeard St. Lawrence Rectory, Taunton.
Hull, H. G., Esq., 3, Broad Street, New York City, U.S.A.
Humphreys, A. L., Esq., 187, Piccadilly, W.
Hurle, J. Cooke, Esq., Brislington Hill, Bristol.
Jenkins, Rev. T. L., Leigh Vicarage, Sherborne.
Jenner, Sir Walter, Bart., Lytes Gary. Kingsdon, Somerset.
Kemys-Tynte, St. D., Esq., Bath and County Club, Bath.
King, Rufus, Esq., 222, N. Broadway, Yonkers, Westchester Co.,
New York, U.S.A.
Kitson, J. L., Esq., Eastcot, Beaminster.
Lambrick, Rev. G. M., Blagdon Rectory, Bristol.
Langdon, Rev. F. E. W., Westmill Cottage, Chard Junction.
Leir, Rev. L. R. M., Charlton Musgrove Rectory, Wincanton.
Leman, H. M., Esq., 29, Herbert Road, Sherwood Rise, Notting-
ham.
Leversedge, R. C., Esq., Evercreech, Somerset.
Lock, B. Fossett, Esq., 11, New Square, Lincoln's Inn Fields,
W.C. (Two Copies).
Lock, Rev. Dr., Keble College, Oxford.
Lockett, R. C., Esq., Clouterbrook, St. Anne's Road, Aigburth,
Liverpool.
London, Library of the City of, Guildhall, E.G.
Long, Col., Newton House, Clevedon.
Lovell, Mrs. F. H., c/o Brown, Shipley and Co., 123, Pall Mall,
London.
March, H. C., Esq., F.S.A., Portisham, Dorchester.
Marriott -Dodington, Rev. H. P., Syles' Farm, Henstridge,
Blandford.
Marshall, J. C., Esq., Far Cross, Woore, Newcastle, Staffs.
Martin, Mrs., The Cottage, Westhope, Craven Arms.
Mayo, Rev. Canon C. H., Long Burton Vicarage, Sherborne
(Editor)* (Two Copies).
Mayo, Rev. Robert, Corsham, Wilts.
Maxwell-Lyte, Sir H. C., K.C.B., F.S.A., 3, Portman Square, W.
Medlycott, Lady, Little Ven, Milborne Port (per Mr. Bennett,
Bookseller, Sherborne).
Middleton, H. B., Esq., Bradford Peverell, Dorchester.
Monck, Rev. G. G., The Vicarage, Stoke-under-Ham, Somerset.
Moorse, Mr. F. A., 4, Leith Terrace, Burnt Wood Lane, Lower
Tooting, Surrey, S.W.
Mumford, Dr. A. A., 44,Wilmslow Road, Withington, Manchester.
Myers, Rev. Canon, St. Martin's Rectory, Salisbury.
Napier, Rev. H. F., Melbury Osmond Rectory, Dorchester.
Nevill, Rev. Edmund, F.S.A., 21, London Road, Salisbury.
New England Historic Genealogical Society, 18, Somerset Street.
Boston, Mass, U.S.A.
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S8th Street, New York, U.S.A.
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New York Public Library, 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, New
York City, U.S.A. f
Nicholson, H. B., Esq., Mappercombe Manor, Melplash, Dorset.
Norton, D. E., Esq., King's School, Bruton, Somerset.*
Norton, Rev, D. E., The Executors of the late.
Ogle, Rev. J., The Manse, Charmouth, Dorset.
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Olds, Edson B., Esq., Union Trust Company of the District of
Columbia, Washington, D. C., United States.
Oliver, Mrs., 45, Church Crescent, Muswell Hill, N.
Oliver, V. L., Esq., Whitmore Lodge, Sunninghill, Ascot.
Paine, Mrs. Lewis, Temple House, Lyme Regis.
Paynter, J. B., Esq., Hendford Manor, Yeovil.
Pearce, Mr. Edwin, Fore Street. Taunton.
Penny, Rev. Frank, 3, Park Hill, Baling, W.
Perceval, C. H. Sp., Esq., Longwitton Hall, Morpeth.
Percival, Rev. S. E., Merriott Vicarage, Crewkerne.
Pinney, Mrs., Brooklands, Beaminster.
Pitfield, T. J., Esq., Trofts, Byworth, Petworth, Sussex.
Ponting, C. E., Esq., F.S.A., Marlborough.
Poole, Mrs., i, Forester Road, Bath.
Pope, Alfred, Esq., South Court, Dorchester.
Pope, F. J., Esq., 17, Holland Road, Kensington, W.
Prideaux, W. de C., Esq., 12, Frederick Place, Weymouth.
Pulling, Alex., Esq., 6, Prince of Wales Terrace, Kensington, W.
Ravenhill, Rev. Canon, Southlea, Queen's Avenue, Dorchester.
Reeder, Rev. W. T., Selworthy Rectory, Allerford, Taunton.
Rees-Mogg, W. W., Esq., Cholwell, Templecloud, Bristol.
Ridley, Rev. J., Pulham Rectory, Dorchester.
Rocke, Miss, Chalice Hill, Dorchester.
Roe, Miss, Sandford Orcas Rectory, Sherborne.
Roemer, The Baroness Von, Lime Park, Hurstmonceaux, Sussex.
Rogers, W. H. H., Esq., F.S.A., Ridgeway, Colyton, Devon.
Rose, Rev. W. F., Hutton Rectory, Weston-super-Mare.
Seaman, Rev. C. E., Stalbridge Rectory, Blandford.
Sheppard, Rev. C. P., Wesley House, Bourton, Dorset.
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Sherston, Mrs., 9, Queen's Parade, Bath.
Sibbald, J. G. E., Esq., Mount Pleasant, Norton St. Philip, Bath.
Simmons, Mrs., Essex House, Prince's Road, Clevedon.
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Skerry, G. A. Langford, Esq., Parkside, Workington.Cumberland.
Skinner, A. J. P., Esq., Colyton, Devon.
Smith, Miss Catherine, Graaff Reinet, Radipole, Weymouth.
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Somerville, A. F.. Esq., Binder, Wells, Somerset.
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Stockwell, F., Esq., M.D., Bruton, Somerset.
Symonds, F. G., Esq., Bank House, Blandford.
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ton, S.W.
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necticut, U.S.A.
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Taunton.
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Williams, Col. Robert, M.P., Bridehead, Dorchester.
Winwood, Rev. H. H., n, Cavendish Crescent, Bath.
Withers, A. H., Esq., 10, Essex Villas, Kensington, W.
Wordsworth, Rev. Sub-dean, St. Nicholas', Salisbury.
Wyman and Sons, Ltd., Messrs., Government Collecting Depot,
Fetter Lane, E.G.
• Member of the Committee.
To be placed at the end of the Preface to Volume XIII.
Somerset &• Dorset Notes <§* Queries. 25
July 14 Berry's acctzs. i o^d. Do. S. Parsley's 35. i od. o. 6. 8£
6. 10. oi
On the back of this bill is written another account for gig
hire, from May, 1818, to Nov. 5, 1821.
The charges (destination usually not mentioned) are all 45.
the journey.
Those specially described or annotated are May, 1818. Gig,
with Mr. Cook. Mr. Cookpd 23. do. with Farmer Harse. June
15, Mr. Addington's Funeral. 12 July, with Farmer Harse to
Weston. 9 and 10 January, 1819, Somerton. 18, 19, 20 and 21
Oct., Taunton. June, 1820, to take Brain. Feb., 1821, with Mr.
Noble to Wells.
THE EDITORS.
11. MENDIP. — Very many of our Place Names in Somerset
are Celtic, e.g., Minehead, Domesday Mane-heved ; "Stone farm-
stead." " Maen hafod " — " hafod " in modern Welsh « an out-
lying farm place." So Keinton, the ton, or village, on the ridge
" cefn " — both names very appropriate. The first syllable of
Mendip suggests " Maen," Celtic " Stone ;" the second syllable
puzzles me, but no doubt a better Welsh scholar can tell us its
meaning.
I find varieties of spelling — " Manedeep," " Maneydep."
G. E. S.
12. HOLGOD AND SxYViNTON, SALOP. — Isolda uxov Johannis
Gorri, tenet parcellam de villa de Holgod pro. di. f. quod Willelmus
de Holgod Castel quondam tenuit de feodo de Maudud et quod Hethe
et Styvinton sunt parcelle illiusdi. f. (Salop.) P. R. O.
Can any reader of S. & D. N. &> Q. oblige me with
the modern equivalents of Holgod and Styvinton, or give me
any information respecting the Willelmus and Maudud therein
referred to ?
C. K. W.
13. RUSSELL FAMILY, OF SHERBORNE, DORSET. — THOMAS
RUSSELL married at Sherborne, 2ist July, 1575, Julian , and
she was buried there 2nd August, 1588. They had issue William,
Andrew and John.
WILLIAM RUSSELL, baptised at Sherborne, 2oth May, 1574,
married at Nether Compton, 3rd July, 1598, Margaret Duffelt.
Their children were John, Christopher, Giels, Anne, William and
Dorothy.
GILES RUSSELL was baptised at Sherborne, loth November,
1603. In his will dated 2gth August, 1664, and proved i$th
26 Somerset &• Dorset Notes <§• Queries.
March, 1670, he is described as a native of Sherborne (see Hut-
chins' Dorset, IV, 259).
Information is required regarding this family, which is sup-
posed to be a branch of the Russells of Kingston Lacy or King-
ston Russell.
E. U. VINCENT.
14. TREGONWELL FRAMPTON IN FACT AND FICTION. — We
are greatly indebted to the Editor of the Field, for his permission
to reprint in the pages of 5. &• D. N. &> Q.t the following article
by Mr. A.. M. Broadley, of Bradpole, — and also for the loan of
the blocks of the two illustrations which accompany it. Mr.
Broadley has also given his permission for the article to appear
in our pages. It was printed in the Field of the 3rd February
last.
DORSET EDITOR.
ALTHOUGH both the parents of the " Father of British Sport "
were born shortly after the accession of James I., he lived to the
beginning of the reign of George II., whom he served as
" keeper of running horses " at Newmarket, a post he had already
held under William III., Queen Anne, and George I. Tre-
gonwell Frampton (1641-1727) was the fifth son of William
Frampton, lord of the manor of Moreton, in Dorset, by his
wife, Katherine Tregonwell, of the neighbouring village of
Milton Abbas. Before 1670 he enjoyed a very high reputation
for his skill in hawking and coursing, as well as for his successes
at the gambling table and on the turf. He was equally renowned
as a trainer of dogs and horses, and as the maker of bets which,
in those days, fairly took away a man's breath. Cranbourne Chase
witnessed his early achievements, but the greater part of his long
and eventful life was passed at Newmarket, where, in 1676, we find
him arranging a race for £1000. On the authority of " Hawks-
worth " his name has been sadly besmirched by the imputation of
an act of wanton cruelty, which occasioned the death of his Majes-
ty's horse Dragon ; but the disgraceful allegation has recently
been disproved, and it is clear that Frampton's connection with
the King's horses did not begin till considerably later. The sole
ground for the story (which for some generations was regarded
as a Newmarket tradition) is a letter of Lord Conway's, dated
Oct. 7, 1682, in which he writes:
His Majesty's horse Dragon, which carried 7 stone, was
beaten yesterday by a little horse called Post Boy, carrying 4
stone, and the masters of that art conclude that this top horse of
England is spoiled for ever.
Surely there is nothing in this statement to justify the abomi-
nable suggestion to which it seemingly gave rise ? But the
defence of Frampton does not rest merely on the disputed inter-
Somerset &• Dorset Notes &> Queries. 27
pretation of a letter. In Lawrence's book on the treatment of
horses will be found a Newmarket letter satisfactorily attesting
the fact that the occurrence was mythical, and that "cruelty was
no part of the character" of the Father of the Turf. Some
eighteen months after the date of the supposed fatal outrage the
Duke of York wrote to the Prince of Orange about an impending
race between Dragon and Why Not. It must be noted that
Hutchins, who wrote within thirty years of Frampton's death,
makes no mention of the alleged outrage.
On the other hand, it is certain that Frampton, who was by
nature a spendthrift and a gambler, as well as a keen sportsman,
was not over-scrupulous in his turf transactions. He is even
credited with being the primary cause of an Act of Parliament
limiting to £10 the sum recoverable on a wager. In 1689 he
allowed the family estates, which came to him on the death of
his brother William, to pass to a cousin, in consideration of the
latter paying him £5000 ready money. A year later he wrote :
' I shall be for a fortnight tumbling up and down in Dorset
and Wiltshire until I have got some money to make up part of
my engagements ; but I doubt shan't all.'
The letters of Tregonwell Frampton, whose modest monu-
ment once stood to the south of the altar in All Saints' Church,
Newmarket, are exceedingly rare, There was one recently dis-
posed of at the sale of the Townshend heirlooms, which excited
very keen competition. It is now in the possession of the writer,
and runs :
To the Lord Townshend at Raynham.
My Lord; — These are the diminutive greyhounds I men-
tioned, they never saw a hare that I know of. about Tuesday
slip them all at one where the cours may not be longe and soe
doe every third day that you may tell me at the plate which pro-
mises to be best Tho they are too young to make much judg-
ment of, their names my man will tell yours, my respects or ser-
vis to yourselfe and company is all now from (according to the
mode) Your Lordships servt.
Newmarkt, Sepbr. 22. 1698. TREGONWELL FRAMPTON.
The next twenty years were busy ones for the indefatigable
runner of the royal horses, In a famous song of the period occurs
the verse :
Four and twenty Yorkshire knights
Came out of the north countree,
And they came down to Newmarket
Mr. Frampton's horses to see.
Queen Anne used to call him playfully " Governor Framp-
ton," and he could afford to disregard the unkind couplet in which
Etheredge gibbeted him along with Mr. Eaton and " brother
28 Somerset &> Dorset Notes &• Queries.
John." Tregonwell Frampton was as celebrated as a "cocker"
as he was as a horse and dog trainer. One would like to know
a little more about the miniature greyhounds he sent to Lord
Townshend at Rainham. A cock, a dog, and the picture of a
racehorse appear in the quaint portraits now reproduced, and
which were prime favourites at Newmarket for many years. It is
possibly to Wooton's engraving that Frampton owes the sobri-
quet of " Father of the Turf." He may, however, have enjoyed
the title towards the end of his long career, for he was a prophet
in his own country, despite his brusqueness and the legend about
the death of Dragon. His passionate fondness for hawking,
cocking, coursing, and racing continued long after he became an
octogenarian. The costume he affected was that of the reign of
William III., when he first began to run the royal horses, and he
wore the same coat at St. James's as he did at Newmarket. He
was always well received at Court, notwithstanding his uncouth
appearance. From Mr. Whyte's account of Newmarket in Queen
Anne's reign we learn something of the methods of
' Mr. Frampton, the oldest, and, as they say, the cunningest
jockey in England ; one day he lost 1000 guineas, the next he
won 2000, and so alternately. He made as light of throwing away
£$oo or £1000 at a time as other men do of their pocket money,
and was perfectly calm, cheerful, and unconcerned when he had
lost a thousand pounds as when he had won it. Mark Noble, in
his continuation of Granger's " Lives," declares he would, if pro-
perly trained, have made an excellent Minister of State.
Frampton was supposed to be better acquainted with the ge-
nealogy of the most celebrated horses than any man of his time.
Not a splint or sprain, or bad eye, or old broken knee, or pinched
foot, or low heel, escaped in the choice of a horse.'
The Tregonwell-Townshend letter is also given in facsimile.
Like a good many other men of mark, the reputation of Tregon-
well Frampton has suffered from slander repeated with strange
persistency. It is clear, however, that neither Dorset nor Cam-
bridgeshire need hesitate to claim the " Father of the Turf "
amongst their worthies. In the old All Saints' Church, Newmar-
ket, a mural monumeut recording the death and achievements-
of Tregonwell Frampton was to be seen to the left of the altar.
It is believed that this tablet, or a portion of it, has been placed
in the tower of the new building which occupies the site of its
predecessor. The fine original portrait of Frampton, now in the
Jockey Club room at Newmarket, was the bequest of the late Sir
Daniel Cooper. The removal of the tablet from its original posi-
tion is to be deplored, and it should certainly be replaced in the
interior of the church without delay. Since the death of old
Tregonwell in 1727, the Framptons of Moreton have given Dor-
set more than one notable sportsman and rider to hounds.
A. M. B.
Somerset &• Dorset Notes &> Queries. 29
15. THE TENANTS OF SHERBORNE, 1377, (Continued],
XII, 254, 309,341.—
Folio i go dorso. Continued.
Idem Willelmus Wilkyns tenet dimidiam virgatam terre na-
tive nuper Willelmi Purdy reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell sol-
vendo ad terminos supradictos iiijs. ob.
Thomas Shoure tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native nuper
Johannis De Dumere reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell sol-
vendo ut supra iiijs. ob. Vend: operum iiijs. xjd. ob.
Willelmus Carter tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native nuper
Johannis Bilwyne reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell solvendo
[ut] supra iiijs. ob.
Johannes Blake tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native nuper
Johannis Stote reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell solvendo ut
supra iiijs. ob.
Agu [PAgilbert] Golde tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native
nuper Cristine Mede ? reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell sol-
yendo ut supra iiijs. ob.
Johannes Spencer tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native
nuper Johannis le Dane reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell sol-
vendo ut supra iiijs. ob.
Thomas Shoure tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native nuper
Radulphi Stok reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell solvendo ut
supra iiijs. ob.
Willelmus Tanner tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native nu-
per Thome Frankeleyn reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell sol-
vendo ut supra iiijs. ob.
Johannes Hikkes tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native nuper
Galfridi Francon reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell solvendo ut
supra iiijs. ob.
Foho 191.
Radulphus Smyth tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native nu-
per Johannis Teilde reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell solvendo
ut supra iiijs. ob.
Willelmus Pegewell tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native
nuper Nicholai Soracale reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell sol-
vendo ut supra iiijs. ob.
Johannes Stille tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native nuper
Cecilie Baldewyne reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell solvendo
ut supra iiijs. ob.
Walterus Webbe tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native nuper
Alicie Dare reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell solvendo ut
supra iiijs. ob.
Remanet in manu domini.
Johannes Pegewell tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native
nuper Alicie Dumere reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell solven-
do ut supra iiijs. ob.
30 Somerset <§• Dorset Notes &• Queries.
Willelmus Lavender tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native
nuper Roger! le mason reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell sol-
vendo ut supra iiijs. ob.
Thomas Jerard tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native nuper
Johannis Wegge reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell solvendo
ut supra iiijs. ob.
Johannes Purdy tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native nuper
Willelmi mody reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell solvendo ut
supra iiijs. ob. Vend' operum ijs. vijd. ob.
Johanna Gardyner tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native nu-
per Johannis Hoghe reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell solvendo
ut supra iiijs. ob. Vend' operum ijs. vijd. ob.
Robertus Newenham tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native
nuper Ricardi Hendeman reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell
iiijs. ob.
Johannes Carpenter tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native
nuper Waited le Med reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell sol-
vendo ut supra iiijs. ob. Vend' operum ijs. vijd. ob.
Johannes Donegate tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native
nuper Johannis Baldewyn reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell
solvendo ut supra iiijs. ob. Vend' operum ijs. vijd. ob.
Johannes Cloth tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native nuper
Rogeri Hurell reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell solvendo ut
supra iiijs. ob. Vend' operum ixs. iijd. ob.
Johannes Scopy tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native nuper
Johannis Burgh reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell solvendo ut
supra iiijs. ob. Vend' operum ijs. xjd. ob.
Ricardus Ryche tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native nuper
Willelmi Maynard reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell solvendo
ut supra iijs. ob. Vend' operum ixs. vijd. ob.
Thomas Jerard tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native nuper
Thome Terry reddet ijs. vjd. pro Wodelode ijd. et pro Portgavel
id. ob. ut supra solvendo ijs. ixd. ob. Vend' operum iijs.
xd. ob.
Johannes Machon tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native nu-
per Cristine Couryng reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell solvendo
ut supra ijs. ixd. ob.
Robertus Walbrigge tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native
nuper Roberti Baron reddet Wodelode et Portgavell solvendo ut
supra iiijs. ob.
Johannes Thurlewynde tenet dimidiam virgatam terre native
nuper Ricardi Renward reddet cum Wodelode et Portgavell sol-
vendo ut supra iiijs. ob.
(Note in margin.)
Et quilibet illorum xxviij Semivirgatariorum operabitur in
omnibus solutis et capiet pro suis operibus et omnia alia facietde
consuetudine sicut Willelmus Wilkyns, &c.
Somerset & Dorset Notes £• Queries. 31
Folio 191 dor so.
Et est consuetude carucariorum quod habebunt inter se
unam acram et j rodam terre arabilis et unam acram etj rodam
prati et valet per annum iiijs. et quod omnes carucarii domini
habebunt prima die quando incipiunt arruram yuernagii pro quali-
bet caruca ijd. et quilibet illorum accipiet ad festum natalem
Domini unum panem et unum ferculum carnis et valet ijd. et ha-
bebunt in communi ad potum xijd, et quilibet eorum accipiet ad
carniprivium unum ferculum carnis et valet jd. et quilibet eorum
accipiet pro precaria carucarum ijd. et quilibet eorum accipiet
arruram x acrarum per annum de consuetudine et valet iiijs. ijd.
et accipient pro duobus carucis j lignum ad reparandum easdem
et valet xijd. et habebunt omnes in communi j busellum fru-
menti et j busellum ordei pro et custodes boum
habebunt arrure quatuor acras quilibet per se ad semen
quadragesimale et valet xxd. et vocatur Shepenacres et quilibet
illorum habebit unum fessum virgarum pro rapis emendendis et
valet jd. et habebunt in principio adventus cuiuslibet Episcopi
unum longum ferrum ad quamlibet carucam et consuetudine, &c.
Summa redditus cxiiijs. viijd. ob.
Johannes Garland Dantisy tenet j ferdellum terre native nu-
per Roberti le Bris Et reddet inde domino ijs. vjd. et pro Port-
gavell jd. Solvendos ad terminos prenominatos et valet opus jd.
dimidium quaterium Et accipiet de domino iiij busellos frumenti
ex mutuo de consuetudine et illis acquietabit et solvet plus pro
eisdem juxta afferenciam ut supra videlicet ad festum sancti
Egidii pro toto anno Et triturabit et ventulabit iiij busellos fru-
menti in hiemem. Et debet Spargere herbagium in pratis supra-
dictis quolibet die cum j homine quousque perficitur et valet
opus vjd. Et debet metere in autumpno iij acras bladi et valet
opus [xd. crossed ouf] xijd. Et adjuvabit facere mullonem feni in
bartona et tassare bladum domini in Grangia quolibet die cum j
homine quousque perficiatur et valet opus ultra reprisam que se-
quitur xijd. et quolibet die percipiet unam garbam cuiuscunque
generis sit at valenciam jd. ob. Et fugabit animalia domini usque
Sarum vel Poterne sumptibus suis propriis et valet opus vjd. Et
debet sequi prepositum ad Nundinas et animalia ibidem per ip-
sum empta ad opus domini debet querere ad distanciam xxx
leucas circa Villam de Shirbourne et nichil percipiet de domino
et valet opus ijd. Et adjuvabit cooperire mullonem feni in bar-
tona cum cursus pervenerit et valet opus per diem jd. Et adju-
vabit braciare cervisia domini ad curiam si domino placuerit
cum cursus advenerit quolibet die cum j homine et habebit pran-
dium per ij dies et valet opus ijd. et habebit unum pail plenum
cervisii continentem ij lagenas precii ijd. et habebit cineres factos
circa bracinam et valet ijd. Et adjuvabit lavare et tondere biden-
tes domini sicut Johannes Wynge supradictus. Et si braciaverit
32 Somerset & Dorset Notes <§>» Queries.
solvet pro qualibet bracina unum denarium nominatum Stake-
peney Et debet panagiare porcos suos et dabit avesagium pro
averiis suis sicut alii vicini Et erit bertwardus et tune erit quietus
et accipiet sicut Johannes Wyng Et cum obierit dabit heriec-
tum ut supra et si nullum habeat dabit xijd. loco heriecti ut op-
timam acram bladi pro voluntate domini.
Folio igz.
Johannes Gardyner tenet j fardellam terre native nuper
Johannis Walbrigge reddet inde ijs. vjd. et pro portgavell et
Wodelode jd. solvendos ad termino ut supra.
Thomas Gardyner tenet unam fardellam terre native nuper
Johannis Laverok reddet inde cum Wodelode et Portgavell jd.
solvendo [ut] supra ijs. vijd.
Thomas Armern tenet j fardellam terre native nuper Hillarii
atte Bare reddet inde cum Wodelode et Portgavell jd. solvendo ut
supra ijs. vijd.
Johannes Piper tenet j fardellam terre native nuper Erne
Bacon reddet inde domino cum Wodelode et Portgavell jd. sol-
vendo ut supra ijs. vijd.
Willelmus Purler tenet j fardellam terre native nuper Nicho-
lai Bertward reddet inde domino cum Wodelode et Portgavell
jd. solvendo ut supra ijs. vijd.
Juliana Whales tenet j fardellam terre native nuper Juliane
Scot reddet inde cum Portgavell et Wodelode jd. solvendo ut
supra ijs. vijd.
Robertus Burgh senior tenet j fardellam terre native nuper
Willelmi Bursy reddet inde domino cum Portgavell et Wodlode
jd. solvendo ut supra ijs. vijd.
Willelmus Hoper tenet j fardellam terre native nuper Thome
Wotton reddet inde cum Wodlode et Portgavell jd. solvendo ut
supra ijs. vijd. Vendendum opus ijs. vd.
Johannes Donyat tenet mesuagium unius fardelle terre
native nuper Walteri Stephyns, Et Johannes Donyat tenet terram
dicti tenement! cum Portgavell reddet eorundem per annum sol-
vendo ut supra ijs. vijd.
In the margin, Ferdellarii.
Et quilibet illorum ix ferdellarii operabitur in omnibus et
solvet et similiter capiet pro suis operibus sicut prefatus Hugo
Tilie.
Johanna Gardyner tenet unam fardellam terre native nuper
Walteri atte Forde reddet cum portgavell solvendo ut supra ijs.
vijd. Et debet spargere herbagium in pratis sicut prefatus Hugo
Tilie Et metet in autumpnoj acram et dimidiam et valet opus
vjd. Et debet facere mullonem feni et tassare bladum in et adju-
vabit cooperire mullonem feni in bartona et cum obierit dabit
heriectum sicut prefatus Hugo.
Somerset & Dorset Notes <£• Queries. 33
Johannes Curteys tenet unam fardellam terre native nuper
Johannis Curteys reddet inde domino per annum iiijs. et pro
portgavell jd. solvendo ut supra Et inveniet unum hominem per
unum diem pro bladis domini metendis si habeat prandium vel
usque horam nonam sine prandio et adjuvabit facere mullonem
feni per dimidium diem et valet opus ( ) Et cum obierit
dabit heriectum sicut dictus Hugo.
Thomas Benet tenet j fardellam terre native nuper Willelmi
Mannyng reddet inde per annum iiijs. jd. solvendo ut supra. Et
faciet summonere v homines custumarios pro bladis domini me-
tendis in autumpno per unum diem si habeant prandium vel
usque horam nonam sine prandio et erit cum dis [st'c]cum virga
sua quasi Augustarius preter operis ( ) Et adjuvabit facere
mullonum in bartona per j diem preter operis. Et cum obierit
dabit heriectum ut supra.
Folio 192 dor so.
Johannes Veel tenet unum cotagium cum curtilagio nuper Wil-
lelmi Toppes reddet per annum ijs. et pro portgavell jd. solven-
dos ad terminos supradictos.
Reginaldus Lewston tenet unum cotagium cum curtilagio
nuper Johannis Bathwiche reddet per annum ijs. et pro Portga-
vell jd. solvendos ad terminos ut supra.
Et uterque illorum debet ventilare bladum domini ad semen
percipiendum pro quatuor quarteriis jd. et etiam ventilare bladum
pro libra famulorum et ad vendendum in patria percipienda pro
v quarteriis jd.
In the margin, Cotagiarii.
Johannes Pegewell Oliverus Danell tenet unum cotagium
cum curtilagio nuper Willelmi Durant reddet inde per annum
xxd. et pro portgavell jd. solvendos ad terminos predictos. Et
triturabit et ventilabit ij busellos frumenti et valet opus obolus.
Et accipiet de domino ij busellos frumenti ex mutuo de consue-
tudine et ilium acquietabit ut supra et similiter plus solvet pro
eisdem juxta afferenciam ut supra. Et debet spargere herbagium
in supradictis pratis quolibet die cum j homine quousque perfici-
tur et valet opus vjd. Et debet facere mullonem feni in bartona
et tassare bladum in Grangia quolibet die cum j homine quousque
perficitur percipiendo de domino pro tassacione predicta quali-
bet die unam garbam cuiuscunque generis bladi sit ad valen-
ciam jd. ob. et valet opus ultra reprisas predictas xijd. Et adju-
vabit cooperire mullonem feni in bartona cum tussus advenerit et
valet opus per diem jd. Et adjuvabit braciare cervisia domini
ad curiam si placuerit domino cum tussus advenerit quolibet die
cum j homine et habebit prandium per ii dies preter operis ultra
reprisas que sequitur iid. et habebit unum pail plenum cervisii et
continentem ij lagenas et valet ijd. et habebit cineres factos circa
34 Somerset <§• Dorset Notes &• Queries.
bracinam et valet ijd. Et adjuvabit lavare et tondere bidentes
domini sicut Johannes Wynge. Et si braciaverit solvet pro quali-
bet bracina unum denarium nominatum stakpeny. Et debet
panagiare porcos suos et dabit avesagium pro averiis suis sicut
alii vicini Et cum abierit dabit heriettum et si nullum habeat
animal dabetvjd. nomine herietti.
Willelmus Mulleward tenet unum mesuagium cum curtilagio
nuper Radulphi Corners reddet inde domino per annum xijd. et
pro portgavell jd. Solutum ad termino supradictos.
Johannes Rende tenet unum mesuagium cum curtilagio nu-
per Johannis Yonge reddet inde domino per annum xxd. et pro
portgavell jd. Solvendum ut supra.
Johannes Donyate tenet unum mesuagium cum curtilagio
nuper Roberti Hokkeden reddet inde domino per annum cum
Portgavell xiijd.
Cecilia Pande tenet unum mesuagium cum curtilagio nuper
Roberti Basyn reddet inde cum jd. de Portgavell Solvendum ad
terminos ut supra xiijd.
Johannes Donyate tenet j mesuagium et unum curtilagium
nuper Willelmi Uphyll reddet inde domino per annum cum jd. de
Portgavell Solutum ut supra xiijd.
Willelmus Hoper tenet unum mesuagium cum Curtilagio
nuper Willelmi le Smyth reddet inde domino per annum cum jd.
de Portgavell Solvendum ut supra xiijd. Item vend' operum
xxiijd. Et uterque illorum operabitur solvet pro operibus et ca-
piet pro eisdem sicut Johannes Pegwell Et ulterius metet
unam acram bladi in autumpno preter operis.
Note in margin. Et isti domino vel debent operari set da-
bunt heriettum sicut unus virgatarius.
Johannes Hargrave tenet unum mesuagium et unam virgatam
terre native nuper Walteri Niwenham solvendum ad quatuor
terminos xxs.
Henricus Syneden (or Syveden) tenet unum mesuagium et
unam virgatam terre native nuper Ade Syveden reddet inde sol-
vendum ut supra xxs.
16. THE DE HARPETRKES AND THEIR DESCENT. — In Vol.11
(p. 479 et seq ;) of the History of the House of Yvery(ij^j) John de
Harpetree is stated to be a younger son of Ascelin Gouel de Per-
cheval, Earl of Yvery, who, as subtenant under the Bishop of
Coutances, held, according to Domesday Book, part of West
Harpetre and also Ferenton, now known as Faringdon Gournay.
That the De Harpetrees were descended from Ascelin seems to
be an error, which Collinson in his History of Somerset, (1792),
Vol., II p. 137, seems also to have fallen into, and so has misled
Somerset <5« Dorset Notes <&• Queries. 35
many others. Daniel Gournay, in his Records of the House of
Gournay, (1848), says, "In the history of the house of Ivery it is
stated that John the first Lord of Harptree was a younger son of
Ascelin Gouel de Percheval, Earl of Ivery, in Normandy, and
Isabella de Breteuil his wife. But this is erroneous, as William
Fitz-John, Lord of Harptree, was son of William Fitz-John, Se-
neschal of Normandy, and Lord of Tilly ; who, by Dionysia de
Mandeville, daughter of Ralph de Mandeville, Lord of Marsh-
wood, [co. Dorset] had two or more sons, Henry de Tilly the
eldest, and William, called Fitz-John, the younger."
"Between these a division was made of the barony; and the
latter, having married Maude de Orescuiltz in the lifetime of his
brother, had a son Thomas (husband of Eva de Gournay), and
these two did homage to Henry de Tilly for Harptree, and lands
in Normandy, the loth year of King John. We subjoin the docu-
ments by which this descent of the Harptrees from the Lords of
Tilly is proved."
Then follow copies of the Charters, &c., referred to. (See
Records of House of Gournay, Vol. I, pp. 611-613.)
C. H. Sp: P.
17. STOFORD IN ILTON. — In the Perambulation of Neroche
Forest, A.D. 1298, Stoford is designated a hamlet belonging to
Ilton Manor. It is now included in Broadway and has long
since been depopulated. A family denominated De Staford
from this place were benefactors to the Abbey of Athelney. Vide
S. R. S. XIV 139. On the following page is a confirmation by
Thomas de Mont Sorell of the gift to the Abbot and Convent of
Athelney of a road in Broadway, by Ralph le Waleys and Johan-
na his wife, " which said road stretches from the Royal Road
which goes towards the forest of Nerecthich as far as the holding
of the said Abbot and Convent at Staford." In documents of
the i yth and i8th centuries it is called Flood Stoverd.
Thus by an indenture dated May ist, 1759, Charles Earl of
Egremont grants seventy four acres of land, etc., lying at Flood
Stoverd in Ilton, to Isaac Standerwick of Broadway, yeoman. In
it is the following reservation : " Except and always reserved out
of this Demise and grant an Antient Drift Way or passage for all
commonable cattle belonging to the Tenants of the Mannor of
Ilton aforesaid when and as often as there shall be occasion to
drive such cattle in and through the said Drift Way or passage to
a certain place called Vinyatts Common to Depasture and feed
upon the common or Forest of Norach." In the Perambulation
above mentioned there is a wood called Uniret, belonging to the
Manor of Ilminster, the situation of which has always puzzled
local archaeologists, and I have thought that Vinyatt may be a
corruption or misreading of the original Uniret.
WILLIAM LOCKE RADFORD.
36 Somerset &• Dorset Notes &• Queries.
18. TERRIER OF CHEWTON VICARAGE, SOMERSET. —
Chewton Vicaridge.
A treweterryor of the sayde Vicaridge made the thirde daye
of October Ao Dni 1 623 Atque regni Dni Regis Jacobi Angl. xxi
ffirst theare ys A Mansyon house. A Hawle, Parlor, Kyt-
chyn, Butterye, and one other lower Roome, and Chambers over
the sayde Parlor Butterye and other Roome A Gatehouse and A
Lofte over yt A Barne Garden and Backsyde cont' by estimacon
one Acre twoe Acres of Meade in Hallomshe one Acre and halfe
at Enborowe and halfe an Acre of Meade at Wytcombe the
Vycare of Chewton hath the tenthe of the lords tenthe of lott
leade due ioth in the Mannor of Chewton he hath also teythe of
Wooll and Lambe the oflferyngs at Easter of the pisshonrs of
Chewton Enborowe ffarrynton Palton and pte of Stoneston he
hath also iijd A Cowe at Palton and ij<* A Cowe at Chewton
Enborowe ffarrynton and pte of Stoneston in lewe of Cowe Whyte
he hath also other small teythes belongynge to his sayde Vicar-
idge— Ant. Eglesfeild Vicarius ibidem — Robte + Hoskyns Tho-f
Bethe Churchwardens — Ja ffrancks — Richard Hippisley — Wil-
liam -f- Howse — GeorgAddames — Richard Addames — RichardDer-
hame— John + Spering. T. W. B.
19. MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTIONS IN OTHER COUNTIES RE-
LATING TO SOMERSET AND DORSET (XII. 229, et ante}.
BOVEY TRACEY CHURCH, DEVON.
A Brass on South Wall of Sanctuary.
Beneath rest in their Lord
The Rev: Joseph Domett, Vicar of this Parish for 55 years, and
Rector of Shepton Beauchamp, Somersetshire, died Oct: 29,
1835, aged 79 Years.
Also his Wife Susanna, Also his Mother Elizabeth Domett.
Also his three Sisters, Elizabeth Domett, Martha Domett, and
Frances Tozer, Widow.
In memory also of his Second Wife Laura, who died at Torquay,
Jan. 3rd, 1863.
Of his three Brothers, Philobeth Domett, Newell Domett, and
John Domett.
And of their Father, the Rev: Philobeth Domett, who was also
previously Vicar of Bovey Tracey, for 50 years, and Vicar
of Axminster, Devon, and whose remains rest beneath the
Chancel of the Parish Church of Axminster.
This chancel is tiled, and this Inscription is affectionately dedi-
cated to their memories, by Elizabeth the only child of the
above Rev. Joseph Domett, and Wife of the Rev: William
George Parkes Smith, Incumbent of St: John's, Torquay.
March 1 6th, 1868. W. C. G. GODDARD.
Somerset &» Dorset Notes &• Queries. 37
20. CHANTEMARLE AND COMBE FAMILIES. —Visitation of
Dorset made by R. St. George, Richmond Herald, 1565, (Harl-
MS. 14.51, fol. 67.)
John Channte Morrell of Chaunte Morell in Co. Dorset Esq. =
Alice d. & h. of Wm. Stoke of Stoke nere Bindon in co.Dorset Knt.
Walter Chante Morrell=Alice da. of Rich. Michaldeuer
John Chantemorrell=
Joan da. & h.=John Cheverell
In the Calendar of Inquisitions of the reign of Edward II it is
stated that John de Chauntemarle, in giving evidence of the age of
John Paynal, says he married his daughter Anastasia in 1 294 to one
" Robert de Combe." This John de Chauntemarle was aged 60
in 1318. Robert de Combe might have been, and probably was,
the " Richard de Combe " who with Anastasia his wife and Peter
de Forestbury in North Todworth (Tedworth) occurs in a settle-
ment on their heirs with remainder to Richard son of Simon de
Combe, mil. A Fine of Trinity Term, 6 Edw. II, states that
Richard and Simon were sons of Richard de Combe, the Sheriff
of Wilts: see Inq. P. M. 1293. These Combes have been traced
holding land in Todworth and Amesbury, Wilts, to John Combe
living in 1436, and the descendants of Simon to Feliceade Combe
who married Laurence de Calston and ancestors of Darells of
Littlecote, Wilts.
Can anyone give any further information of these early
Chantemarles and Combes ? M. VON ROEMER.
21. "PENTAN." — In an old Evershot Diary, under date of
Saturday, 6th March, 1779, occurs the following entry :
" Farmr. Dibble sent up 2 Hundred of pentan plants for
which I paid his Son 2. 4
which planted by R. H. in the Higher Garden."
What are " pentan " plants ? I cannot find the word in any
dictionary or botanical book in my possession. Is it some spe-
cies of Cabbage ? Farmer D. lived, I believe, at Chiselborough.
S. R. B.
NOTICES OF BOOKS.
22. VICTORIA COUNTY HISTORY OF SOMERSETSHIRE,
Vol. II. 1912, (pp. 650, maps, plans, illustrations, indices toVols.
I and II). Constable & Co., London.
38 Somerset 6> Dorset Notes <§> Queries.
Volume I, issued in 1906, was devoted to the Geology and
Natural History, and to the different stages of civilisation as far
as Domesday, on which the modern manorial history must be
based. Volume II concludes the general history in a series of
chapters, to which attention will be shortly drawn. But regard-
ing the work generally, it is clear that the editors and contribu-
tors have followed the plan set forth in the introduction to the
Cambridge Medieval History. ' The work is intended partly for
the general reader as a clear and, as far as possible, interesting
narrative, partly for the student, as a summary of ascertained
facts, with indications (not discussions) of disputed points ;
partly as a book of reference, containing all that can reasonably
be required in a comprehensive work of... history.' The articles
are eminently readable ; they are based on original and often
hitherto unused material : this gives a freshness to the narrative,
and the reader is not irritated by the repetition of old errors
copied from earlier writers.
The volume opens with a solid article on the Ecclesiastical
History followed by another on Religious Houses, both by the
Rev. T. Scott Holmes, who also writes the article on Schools.
He puts the matter of the antiquity of Glastonbury quite plainly,
pointing out that William of Malmesbury's history is only the
monks' story, who had already provided forged charters for the
later period, though as Freeman pointed out long ago, even they
did not dare to forge a charter of King Arthur or some other
patron in the long ages stretching back to Joseph of
Arimathea. The ' Religious Houses ' article brings together a
mass of details scattered through many chartularies and transac-
tions. In spite of vulgar prejudice dying very hard, it is plain to
see how these havens of peace alone provided for the cultivation
of literature, science, and art in the dark ages.
The ' Political History ' is excellent, which also applies to
the ' Social and Economic.' There is hardly any overlapping, a
fault not easy to avoid. As doubt has been thrown on the cor-
rectness of ' shire ' as applied to this county, a reference might
have been added to Sir Edward Fry's summing up in favour of
its use in the Proceedings of the Som. Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc.,
vol. 49, ii, i. The section on the Civil War combines much
scattered information, and ought to produce a companion volume
to Bayley's Civil War in Dorset.
The ' Social and Economic ' Section shows a wide grasp of
the subject. Agriculture has always been the main occupation
and has evolved a particular type of manorial and social life. As
people must be fed, it is to be hoped that the somewhat pessi-
mistic view of the future will not be realized. Perhaps something
might have been added about ' Society ' at different periods, the
rise and fall of the great families from the Conqueror's followers
onwards, but probably sufficient about them will be found in the
parochial histories.
Somerset & Dorset Notes 6» Queries. 39
The 'Industries' are very adequately treated. As might be
expected they are ever rising and waning. The production of
minerals, with the exception of coal, has practically ceased (the
Inland Revenue has lately been called on to decide if stone and
clay are minerals) ; but there are many varieties of manufactures,
some of which are known far beyond the bounds of the County.
Agriculture has a special article of considerable interest.
' Maritime History ' is a case of bricks without straw, and is
mainly a sad account of the perils of sailors from piracy on the
sea and wreckers on the shore. The office of Vice- Admiral was
held by incongruous persons, from an archdeacon of Taunton,
temp. John, to the place-hunter Bubb Doddington, temp. George
II. On the other hand the County produced Admiral Blake
second only to Nelson.
Rather out of place in this volume comes the valuable article
on ' Ancient Earthworks ' with a map and many plans. They are
found on every high hill and in the wildest parts of Exmoor where
the winter conditions must have been almost beyond human en-
durance. The camps are classified under constructive features,
and not in chronological order as at present accepted. This
course obviates the necessity of revising the position of certain
camps, but the reader is left rather in the dark as to the strategic
positions of the county in any given period.
The ' Forestry ' chapter is mainly descriptive of the ancient
royal forests or hunting grounds, concerning which a good deal
is already available in print. The deer parks are enumerated,
and reference is given to modern efforts at planting. But owing
to the value of land large woods are much scarcer here than in
some other counties, although from the quantity of hedgerow
timber the general appearance in summer is that of a forest.
The last article is on ' Sport ' which is carried on in many
forms. The ancient pastime of quarter-staff or single-stick is
now extinct with the revels where it formed the great attraction,
though a few veterans may still be found who can fight their
battles o'er again.
These volumes should find a place in every house where
Collinson's History is still referred to, and the demand for them
will all the sooner lead to the supply of the remaining volumes.
A.
23. WIFELA'S COMBE — A HISTORY OF THE PARISH OF
WIVELISCOMBE, by Preb. F. Hancock, F.S.A., Vicar of Dunster.
Taunton — The Wessex Press — 1911. Pp. ix + zgd, with nine
illustrations, 10/6 net.
Mr. Hancock has once more laid his own neighbourhood
under a deep obligation, for he has added to his other parochial
Histories, this relating to Wiveliscombe. There are 1 3 chapters
besides appendices.
40 Somerset &• Dorset Notes & Queries.
i. General History. 2. The Manor. 3. Prebend ofWivelis-
combe. 4. Church. 5. Church Plate and Bells. 6. Charities.
7. The Vicarage. 8. Oakhampton. 9. Industries. 10. Regis-
ters, ii. Churchwardens' Accounts. 12. Personal History.
13. Traditions.
The Churchwardens' Accounts begin in 1681.
In 1682 we find 6d. paid for the " lenthof a sheete of several
persons that did pennance in the church."
In 1684, izs. are paid for ringing when the Rye House Plot
was discovered.
The chapter on Personal History is very interesting. It
treats of the families of De Nonington, Wyveliscombe, Jewe,
Cappes, Hawley, Dyke, Pole (there is a portrait of Thomas
Pole, M.D.), Yea, Boucher, Hancock, Bourne and Colles, and
genealogists will find here valuable material for a history of these
families. The book is well printed and nicely got up in every
way. There is a good index, and Appendix II gives short analy-
ses of six Court Rolls of the manor preserved in the Lambeth
Palace Library.
2.
24. GARRARD'S, 1721-1911, CROWN JEWELLERS AND GOLD-
SMITHS DURING Six REIGNS AND IN THREE CENTURIES. Lon-
don: Stanley Paul &Co., 31, Essex Street, W.C. 8vo. Pp. 182,
with 43 illustrations. Price 55.
A finely printed and illustrated brochure has been placed in
our hands for notice in the pages of 5. &• /). W. £• Q.t and as
the title informs us, it is an account of GARRARD'S, the famous
Crown Jewellers and Goldsmiths of the Haymarket, and subse-
quently of Albemarle and Grafton Streets, London. But this is
far from being an adequate description of its contents, for it sets
forth the origin and early history of the localities above men-
tioned, with many gossiping details of the persons who lived
there, and the events connected with the famous theatres which
had their home in the Haymarket, — and the associations of the
other streets where GARRARD'S has now a settlement.
The whole forms a "taking" book, which will appeal to all
who are interested in the growth of Greater London, and espe-
cially to those who remember, as does the writer of these lines,
the consummate acting of Sothern in the part of Lord Dundreary
in 1862, when Our American Cousin ran for 496 nights, from nth
November in the previous year. The illustrations, forty-three in
number, are a valuable addition to the book, and comprise
portraits of Royalties and others, old plans of the neighbour-
hood, views of Garrard's, and representations of Crown Jewels,
and many other matters worthy of attention. The initials on page
182 reveal that the author is Mr. A. M. Broadley, of the Knapp,
Bradpole, who has drawn upon his collections to illustrate his work.
A.
Somerset &> Dorset Notes &• Queries. 41
25. INDEX TO ABBOT MONINGTON'S " SECRETUM." (XII
273» 321. 356) Continued.
Mere.
Carta Hedde facta Hengislo abbati de Lantocal de Faring-
mere.
Carta Forthere episcopi facta abbati de Bledeneie.
Quietaclamancia R. de Luci de ij. acris terre in Mere.
Carta Walteri le Fleming de Dynre de resignacione pasture
in mora de Godeneie.
Carta Cenwalli regis de manentia de Faringmere.
Indentura Inter abbatem Glastonie et Johannem decanum
Wellie.
Quietaclamancia Walteri de Farindone.
Indentura facta inter abbatem et decanum de seperato more
de Yulmore.
Schapwyk'. Fo. 152.
Carta Willelmi de Reini facta Walfero de Schapwyk de una
virgata terre in eadem villa.
Carta Walteri de Schapwyk facta Savarico de Chinnok de
terris suis que [sic] habuit in Schapwyk.
Carta Reginaldi Gentil facta R. filio Walteri de Schapwik de
uno mesuagio et una virgata terre in eadem villa.
Quietaclamancia Thome de Mourtone facta abbati de j di-
midia hida terre in Schapwik'.
Litera attornatoria T. de Mourtone facta Reginald© Gentil
quod abbati attornet racione tenure sue.
Carta convencionis inter Willelmum de Raleighe et Gerva-
sium Brun et Walterum de Schapwik de iij. virgatis terre et vij.
acris in Schapwik et terra de Lini.
Carta Willelmi de Raleighe per quam fatetur se fuisse apud
Ivelcestre quando hec concordia facta fuit et similiter apud
Glastoniam quando caucionem prestitit quod nunquam in con-
trarium machinare deberet.
Carta Walteri de Schapwik' de una acra arundineti data
ecclesie.
Carta eiusdem Walteri facta abbati de omnibus pertinenciis
suis in Withies.
Litera Walteri de Schapwik directa Gilberte le Waleis et
Johanni alumpno eiusdem quod abbati intendant.
Litera eiusdem Walteri Philippo Baroun, Waltero Baron,
Johanni Baroun, Stephano Richeman, Waltero filio Radulphi,
Batino Baroun, Willelmo Baroun et Gervasio filio Joicie quod
abbati intendant.
Convencio inter abbatem et Isabellam uxorem Walteri de
Schapwik.
42 Somerset & Dorset Notes £> Queries.
Litera ejusdem Isabelle facta Roberto de Horstede ad po-
nendum abbatem in seisinam terrarum et tenementorum que fue-
runt mariti sui.
Quietaclamancia Thome de Ivethorne de omnibus terris et
tenementis que fuerunt dicti Walteri.
Cirographum convencionis inter abbatem et eundem Tho-
mam de predictis.
Licencia domini regis super eisdem.
Recognicio Ricardi Pik de homagio et fidelitate facta [stc]
abbati pro terris suis in Chautone, Schapwik et Pedewelle.
* Carta ejusdem Ricardi facta abbati de quarta parte unius
acre in Murlinche. fo. 155.
Carta Jacobi Trivet facta Ricardo Pik redditus et servicii
terrarum et proventuum in Murlinche.
Litera Jacobi Trivet facta Johanni Pik omnium terrarum
usque ad plenam etatem heredis.
Litera Walteri Tok facta Ricardo de Combe de intendencia
facienda Hugoni Trivet de tenemento de Murlinche feodi de
Greintone.
Litera Humfridi de Scomvili directa Hugoni Trivet de ad-
mittendo Ricardum Pik ad facienda servicia ejusdem Humfridi
in villa de Murlinche
Litera Ricardi Pik per quam fatetur se fecisse homagium
eorundem quo supra, f
Carta Johannis Pik facta abbati Glastonie de homagiis et
serviciis omnium terrarum et tenementorum Ricardi Pik in Mer-
linche et sunt quatuor litere de eisdem.
Recordacio placiti eiusdem Ricardi in curia domini regis.
Memorandum quod infra sub titulo de deposito alieno sunt
signa et plura de ill' Ediner.
Carta Agnetis Ediner facta abbati de una virgata terre in
Schapwik.
Quietaclamancia Helewise filie Johannis Rier facta Waltero
de Schapwik de uno mesuagio et iij virgatis terre in eadem.
Quietaclamancia Willelmi Champion facta abbati de terris et
tenementis que fuerunt Walteri de Schapwik in eadem.
Quietaclamacio domini Philippi de Columbariis facta abbati
super ix. mesuagiis, unius [_sic~\ carrucata terre, c. acris prati
apud Withies.
Carta Bartholomei de Cumelesbergh' de dimidio feodo mili-
tis in Eadecote dato Anselmo Basset.
Quietaclamancia Johannis Witang' facta abbati de communa
* In the margin by another hand, "Murlynche."
t At the foot of the page by another hand : " Quere evidencias de Mir-
lynche inmediate post evidencias de Schapewyke."
Somerset &• Dorset Notes &• Queries. 43
Aysscote. Fo. 157. B.
pasture et aliis exaccionibus in Strete, Waltone, Aiscote et
Schapwik.
Carta Sampsonis le Frie facta Willelmo Aumfrai de j. mes-
uagio et curtilagio in Aiscote.
Carta Willelmi Aumfrei facta Johanni de Aiscote de eodem.
Carta Sampsonis le Frie facta Johanni de Aiscote de una
acra terre arabilis in eadem.
Carta Johannis de Aiscote facta Thome fratri suo de una
acra terre arabilis in eadem.
Carta Sampsonis le Frie facta Roberto filio Willelmi Herne-
man de j. dimidia acra terre et j. perticata prati in eadem.
Carta Roberti Herneman facta Johanni de Aiscote de una
dimidia acra terre arabilis et j. perticata prati in eadem.
Quietaclamancia Sampsonis le Frie facta abbati de omnibus
juribus sibi competentibus racione tenure sue in Aiscote.
Litera magistri Antonii de Bradeneie de terra de Aiscote.
Carta Galfridi de Langeleighe facta Petro Fardein de omni-
bus terris et tenementis suis que habuit in Aiscote.
Caucio Galfridi de Langeleighe pro capella curie sue in
Aiscote.
Quietaclamancia Walteri Parentin facta Petro Fardein omnis
juris quod habuit in villa de Aiscote, Waltone et Greintone.
Indentura inter eosdem super eisdem.
Carta Petri Fardein facta Thome Tilli de terris et tenementis
que habuit de dono Galfridi de Langeleyghe in Waltone, Aiscote
et Greintone.
Quietaclamancia ejusdem Petri de eisdem.
Quietaclamancia relicte Petri Fardein de eisdem.
Carta Willelmi Tilli facta Magistris W. de Seltone et J. de
Faringdone de omnibus terris et tenementis que habuerunt in
Aiscote, Greintone, et Waltone.
Quietaclamancia ejusdem Willelmi eisdem facta eorundem
que supra.
Litera attornatoria Willelmi Tilli ad liberandam seisinam
eorumdem eisdem que supra.
Litera obligatoria Willelmi Tilli cc. marcarum facta abbati.
Indentura condicionalis super eandem.
Litera maioris et communitatis Bristollie testificatoria Wil-
lelmum Tilli plene esse etatis.
Item Litera communitatis abbati directa sub private sigillo
maioris.
Quietaclamancia Walteri de Chautone facta magistro J. de
Farindone de terris et tenementis que fuerunt W. Tilli in Ais-
cote, Greintone et Waltone.
Carta magistrorum W. Seltone et J. Faringdone de eisdem
terris datis ecclesie.
Licencia domini regis super eisdem.
44 Somerset &• Dorset Notes &• Queries.
Greingtone. Fo. 162.
Carta Johanne le Goviz et M. filii sui facta Roberto de
Sancto Claro de terra Greintone.
Quietaclamancia Robert! de Sancto Claro facta abbati de
eadem.
Carta Michaelis de Goviz facta abbati de j mesuagio cum
terris que habuit in Greingtone.
Carta M. le Goviz facta abbati de omnibus terris et tene-
mentis que sibi accidebant in Greingtone et Aiscecote.
Litera M. le Goviz ad ponendum abbatem in seisinam terra-
rum suarum de Budecleighe, Greintone et Aiscote.
Quietaclamancia Willelmi Wason de terris et tenementis que
fuerunt M. Goviz in Greintone et Aiscote.
Item remissio Willelmi Wason filii Galfridi de eodem.
Licencia domini regis de eisdem que supra.
Relaxacio Johannis le Goviz de terris et tenementis in
Greintone.
Quietaclamancia Ricardi fratris sui de eisdem.
Cirographum inter abbatem Glastonie et Roggerum le Tok
de quietaclamancia ipsius Roggeri facta ecclesie de terra, prato
et bosco et advocacione ecclesie de Greintone et de feoffamento
Thome filii sui.
Cirographum inter predictum abbatem et eundem Rogge-
rum de warda Thome filii sui.
Litera Rogeri le Toker ad homines suos de Greintone quod
abbati intendant.
Carta Thome le Toker de quietaclamancia nobis facta [de]
manerio de Greintone et advocacione ejusdem ville.
Litera attornatoria ejusdem T. facta abbati terrarumet tene-
mentorum suorum.
Quietaclamancia Juliane relicte Thome Wiot de Insula que
vocatur Torni.
Waltone. Fo. 164.
Carta Ade filii Galfridi vinitoris de ij. virgatis terre in Wal-
tone datis Willelmo de Wintonia.
Carta Galfridi filii Galfridi facta Johanni filio Angelardi de
ij. virgatis terre in eadem.
Carta Willelmi de Wintonia facta ecclesie de vij. acris dimi-
dia terre arabilis in eadem.
Carta ejusdem Willelmi facta ecclesie de remissione tocius
ecclesie [sic] * sue in Waltone.
Quietaclamacio Roberti de Wautone de j. dimidia virgata
terre in eadem facta ecclesie.
* The text has " tocius terre et tenement! sui."
Somerset &> Dorset Notes &• Queries. 45
Inquisicio facta de bosco de Scherpham.
Confessio Radulphi de Wautone quod non nisi de gracia
marlam percepit.
Strete. Fo. 165.
Carta Nicholai de la Mare de tenementis et serviciis in
Leighe redditus [sic'] abbati.
Obligacio Elie de la Mare facta abbati de tenementis et
serviciis in Leighe.
Assignacio Nicholai de la Mare facta abbati de demis-
sione tenencium predicti N. quod abbati inperpetuum intendant.
Carta Galfridi de Langeleighe de concessione cujusdam
clausi juxta pontem de Strete.
Carta Martini de Leighe de resignacione cujusdam prati et
pasture juxta eundem calcetum.
Carta Grecie de Meisi facta Elie de la Mare de servicio
tenementorum in Leighe.
Litera Grecie de Meisi abbati directa de dimissione servicii
sui facta Elie de la Mare.
Litera convencionis inter Heliam Cotel et abbatem super
altercacione facta servicii manerii de Leighe.
Remissio Johannis de Bertone facta abbati de redditu quod
[st'c] percipere solebat de tenementis de Leighe.
Carta Roberti de Bartone facta abbati de terris et tenemen-
tis que habuit in Leighe et Strete.
Litera Johannis de Bertone, Luce de Hache et uxori sue
directa de intendencia abbati facienda.
Carta Walteri de Strete capellani facta Roberto filio suo de
j. dimidia virgata et j. perticata et dimidia terre arabilis.
Carta Walteri de Strete facta Alicie de Leighe omnium que
sibi competebant in Strete.
Litera Walteri de Strete directa tenentibus suis quod Alicie
de Leighe intendant.
Obligacio Reginaldi de Mere de non alienando tenementa
in Budecleighe et Strete et de terris in Brente.
Carta domini Nicholai de Langelonde facta W. de Bourne
de terris et tenementis que fuerunt Johannis de Mere.
Scriptum domini Willelmi de Bourne de terris que [«V]
habuit ex dono domini Nicholai datis ecclesie.
Licencia domini regis de eadem.
Remissio et quietaclamacio Johannis de Ellefelde facta Hu
goni Pruet de terris suis in Strete et Leighe.
Litera Willelmi le Hert quod possit communiare in commu-
na pasture de Strete.
Indentura inter abbatem Glastonie et Lucam de Hache de
terris de Leighe concessis ad terminum vite.
Tres inquisiciones super rectoria ecclesie de Strete.
46 Somerset & Dorset Notes & Queries.
Budecleyghe. Fo. 169.
Carta Edberti regis de Budecleighe.
Quietaclamancia magistri Henrici Huse rectoris ecclesie de
Budechcleighe de communa pasture in Horsi et de excambio sibi
facto trium acrarum et dimidie more in eadem.
Relaxacio Roberti le Tok facta abbati Glastonie de una
placea que vocatur Mullepund.
Concessio communariorum quod abbas includere possit c.
acras more in eadem.
Baltonesborwe.
Carta Lulle Christi ancille de Baltonesberghe.
Cirographum inter abbatem et Nicholaum filium Martini
factum de boscis de Baltonesborghe et Ludeforde.
Litera caucionis Nicholai filii Martini de cirographo levando
in curia domini regis super confirmacione convencionis prescripti.
Confirmacio Johannis Peverel super convencione facta bos-
corum de Baltonesborwe et Ludeforde.
Carta Mathei de Wermishulle de pace facta super pastura de
Baltonesborwe.
Carta Simonis de Raleighe facta Matheo de Combe de terra
sua de Wermeshulle.
Caucio Nicholai rectoris ecclesie de Bertone de non vendi-
cando jure in bosco vel pastura de Baltonesborwe.
Pultonc.
Carta regis Ine de Pultone.
Carta Walteri de Yadewik de servicio ecclesie faciendo pro
tenemento de Est Comptone.
Carta Roggeri Blunt facta ecclesie de annuo redditu quatuor
solidorum de prato de Wottone et campo de Est Comptone.
Quietaclamancia Ade Blund facta ecclesie de communa
pasture in parco de Pultone.
Caucio Roggeri le Blunt quod stabit ordinacioni abbatis in
omnibus que versantur inter ipsum et Walterum de Yadewik'.
Carta indentata Walteri de Yadewik' de resignacione com-
mune pasture in Wottone et de excambio sibi facto iiij. acrarum
more juxta Herti et j. acre pasture apud Luteresfolde et unius acre
terre in situ molendini de Wottone.
Carta Walteri de Yadewik facta Petro filio suo de terris et
tenementis in manerio de Pultone.
Carta Petri de Yadewik' facta abbati de x. acris terre arabi-
lis et dimidia in campo de Comptone.
Carta Walteri de Yadewik de remissione unius tenementi in
Pultone quod Roggerus de Northpedertone tenuit facta abbati.
Litera Willelmi de Yadewik' abbati directa pro ratificacione
Somerset &• Dorset Notes &• Queries. 47
habenda dimissionis juris quam habuit facta Thome fratri suo.
Carta Mathei de capella facta Roberto filio suo de terra sua
in Pultone.
Carta Roberti de capella facta Henrico Parent de j. dimidia
virgata terre et j. mesuagio in Pultone.
Relaxacio redditus unius libre cimini quam fecit Robertas de
capella Henrico Parent.
Caucio Roberti de capella de non machinando contra con-
cessionem factam Henrico Parent.
Carta Henrici Parent facta Waltero Parent de dimidia vir-
gata terre in Pultone.
Quietaclamancia Nicholai de Littletone facta H. Parent de
dimidia virgata terre in eadem.
Carta H. Parent facta abbati de dimidia virgata terre.
Carta Roggeri Blunt facta W. de Yadewik de quodam red-
ditu fratri cum aliis ad vitam ejusdem W.
Carta Roggeri Blunt facta abbati Glastonie de annuo red-
ditu iiij. solidorum de prato de Wottone et campo de Est-
comptone.
Carta Walteri de Yadewik facta Petri filio suo de terris suis
infra manerium de Pultone.
Carta W. de Yadewik' facta abbati de quodam mesuagio in
Estcomptone.
Carta Petri de Yadewik' facta abbati de x. acris dimidia terre
arabilis in campo de Wottone.
Litera W. de Yadewik Roggero le Blunt directa quod abbati
intendat.
Carta Willelmi de Yadewik' de resignacione commune pas-
ture in Wottone et de excambio sibi facto.
Litera convencionis quam W. Malet fecit abbati de relaxa-
cione dotis filie sue.
Carta Nicholai Tropmel de resignacione juris Felicie que
fuit uxor Ricardi de capella.
Carta Nicholai Tropmel facta abbati de terra et prato in
Pultone.
Carta Nicholai Tropmel de quodam crofta [sic] dato abbati.
Carta W. Tropmel et A. Blunt facta abbati de communa
eorum in parco de Pultone.
Carta Roberti Malet facta abbati de iiij. acris terre.
Carta Thome Gregori de quadam terra in Pultone.
Relaxacio domini abbatis facta Ricardo de Westleighe de
cariagio bladi et feni cum aliis.
Quietaclamancia Walteri Baudin de communa pasture in
Wustannesberghe et de excambio sibi facto.
Quietaclamancia Johannis Sammel de pastura de Estholte.
Quietaclamancia Roberti de Marnhulle facta abbati de ij.
mesuagiis, ij. dimidiis virgatis terre, xlij. acris dimidia et tercia
parte unius acre terre, prati, pasture, et bosci de Pultone.
48 Somerset & Dorset Notes &• Queries.
Wottone.
Carta Edmundi regis de Wottone.
Cirographum inter abbatem et R. de Buttone precentorem
Wellie de molendina [sic] de Wottone cum aliis.
Cirographum inter abbatem Glastonie et succentorem Wel-
lie de j. acra et dimidia terre in Wottone cum aliis.
Doultyng'.
Carta Ini regis de Doulting'.
Carta Ricardi de Meisi facta Willelmo de Meisi de dimidia
hida terre in Presteleighe.
Carta Willelmi de Meisi facta Ade Fichet de xij. acris terre
in Presteleighe.
Carta Willelmi de Meisi de vj. acris terre in Doulting.
Convencio facta inter abbatem et Petrum de la Mare de
quodam inhouk'.*
Melles.
Carta Beatricis de Sancto Vigore de ij. insulis datis ecclesie
in eadem.
Carta Edmundi regis de eadem.
Carta Johannis Lisoun facta R. de Brente de terra quam
habuit in Melles, Doulting et Sowi.
Remisio Johannis Lison facta abbati de terra quam habuit
in Melles et alibi ubicumque.
Obligacio Roberti Brente de non alienando servicio debito
pro eisdem terris.
Carta W. de Albinico facta abbati pro communa in Badham.
Carta Walteri de Dounhevede quod gracia abbatis non gene-
ret ei prejudicium.
Carta Galfridi Sammel per quam fatetur se tenere de eccle-
sia tenementum quod fuit Johannis Doggetail.
Carta Willelmi Peitevin de quibusdam terris et pratis datis
ecclesie.
Obligacio Willelmi Peitevin facta abbati de non alienando
terras suas.
Quietaclamancia ejusdem Willelmi facta abbati de uno fer-
dello terre in Melles.
Quietaclamancia Radulphi de Suellneie de secta Kinmers-
done remissa abbati.*
Carta Regis [de] ij. solidis remissa [sic'] abbati in eadem.
* inko/tum : Any corner or part of a common field, ploughed up and sowed
with oats, &c., and sometimes fenced in with a dry hedge, in that year wherein
the rest of the same field lies fallow and common (Jacob).
* At the foot of this page is this note by another hand, " In fine libri ha-
bentur evidencie de ij. solidis in Melles, eciam in multis aliis locis habentur."
Somerset &• Dorset Notts <§• Queries. 49
26. INQUISITIONES POST MORTEM FOR DORSET. (VIII.
pp. 185, 233, 281, 329, IX. pp. 49, 96, i4S, 193. 241, 289, 377, X.
pp.4i, 89, 137, 185, 233, 281, XL pp. 41, 89, 137, 185, 289,
337, XII. pp. 41, 89, 137, 185, 233, 281,329, 364.)—
during the past 10 years praying for those alms, but have alto-
gether withheld them to the intollerable damage and retarding of
aid of the souls aforesaid. And the Jurors say further that the
said John now Abbot, and his predecessors for 10 years have
taken the issues and profits of the manor aforesaid to the use of
the house and Convent of Cerne. And that the said manor of
Mustereston is worth yearly in all issues besides reprises 10
marks. They say also that William the Conqueror at one time
King of England, also one of the progenitors of the present King
gave to Williamihen Abbot of Cerne, a predecessor of John the
present Abbot, the manors of Estwerdesford and Lytelbrocton
otherwise called Lytelfrome by Dorchester. To have to the said
William the Abbot and his successors Abbots of Cerne, in order
that they should find and sustain 2 secular chaplains to celebrate
and do daily the offices of the mass in the church of the abbey
aforesaid for the health of the soul of the said William the Con-
queror and the souls of his heirs, kings of England from the time
of the said gift. However neither the said John now abbot nor
any of his predecessors have found or sustained any chaplains for
the past 22 years, but have altogether withheld such sustentation
to the retarding of aid and damage to the souls aforesaid. And
the Jurors say that John now abbot and his predecessors have
taken the issues and profits of the said manors of Estwerdesford
and Lytelbrocton otherwise Lytelfrome by Dorchester during the
said 22 years to the use of the house and Convent of Cerne.
And [the Jurors] say that the manor of Estwerdesford is worth
yearly in all issues besides reprises £% and the manor of Lytel-
brocton otherwise Lytelfrome is worth yearly in all issues besides
reprises 6s 8d.
Inq. p.m. 18 Henry VI. No. 72.
(New References. Inquisitions, Miscellaneous, Chancery, File
309. No. 72.)
No. 247. OlUliam Cbalcote.
Writ dated at Westminster, 24th Sept. i Ric. Ill (1483.)
Inquisition taken at Dorchestre in the county of Dorset on
4th Novr i Ric. Ill (1483) before John Ken the King's Escheator
in the county aforesaid, by the oath of John Shete, John Martyn,
Thomas Manley, John Peche, William Forshey, Thomas Hownet,
John Gifford, John Westwode, John Godde, Robert Fyvyan, Thomas
Gillet and John Lynde, who say that
D
50 Somerset <S> Dorset Notes &> Queries.
William Chalcote son and heir of Richard Chalcote deceased
held no lands or tenements of the King in chief in demesne or in
service on the day he died, but they say that he held i messuage
i carucate of land 10 acres of meadow in Estkymeryche called
Chalcotez in the Isle of Purbike of John Neuburgh senior esquire
on the day he died by the service of ^ knight's fee and a rent of
1 6s yearly as of his manor of Eston in Purbike, which manor the
said John Neuburgh has and holds for term of his life by gift and
grant of the Prior and Convent of the church of Grischurche
[sic] Twynham in the County of Southampton by their charter
sealed with the seal of the Prior and Convent. And they say
that the said William Chalcote held on the day he died of John
Neuburgh i messuage 15 acres of land in Putton and Estchikerell
in the county aforesaid late of Robert Salman by the service of
£th knight's fee as of his manor of Sutton Poyntz in the said
county. And further they say that the said William Chalcote was
seized of the manor of Hungerhill in the county aforesaid and 2
carucates of land 20 acres of meadow 40 acres of pasture 20 acres
of moor 100 acres of furze 10 acres of wood in Shiterton and
Hungerhill in the said county in his demesne as of fee and so
thereof seized long before his death he by his charter gave and
granted the manors lands and tenements aforesaid to Master
Henry Sutton clerk and Thomas Neuburgh. To have to them
their heirs and assigns for ever to the use of the said William
and his heirs . By virtue of which gift and grant the said Henry
and Thomas were thereof seized in their demesne as of fee and
so now are seized thereof. Further they say that the said mes-
suage and carucate of land and 10 acres of meadow in Estky-
meryche called Chalcotes are worth yearly in all issues besides
reprises 533 4d, and the said messuage and 15 acres of land in
Putton and Estchikerell are worth yearly in all issues besides re-
prises 263 8d. And they say that the said William Chalcote died
on the last day of January last, and that George Chalcote is his son
and heir, and he is aged 8 years.
Inq. p.m. i Richard III. No. 4.
(New Reference. Chanc. Inq. p.m. Richard III. File i. No. 4.)
F)ugb Ic Chapman of 6ussicb St. Hndrew.
Writ dated at Stryvelin (Stirling) on 25th Octr 10 Edw. 111(1336).
Inquisition taken at Blaneford before Ralph de Myddelneye
the King's Escheator in the counties of Somerset, Dorset, Devon
and Cornwall on 6th May n Edw. Ill (1337) bythe oath of Thomas
Botyler, Giles le Botir, Simon Gentyl, Richard Cnoiel, Nicholas
Halveknyght, Henry Antyoche, Richard de Bernage, Nicholas Hervy,
John Anstie, William de Nctforde, William del Smyth, and Thomas
Hup, who say that
Somerset &• Dorset Notes £• Queries. 51
Hugh le Chapman of Guschich St. Andrew held on the day
he died in his demesne as of fee i messuage 15 acres of arable
land at Guschich St. Andrew of the King in chief in the county
of Dorset. Rendering therefor yearly to the King i pound of
cumin at the feast of St. Michael for all services, which are worth
yearly in all issues 53. And they say that John son of the said
Hugh is his next heir, and he is aged 15 years and upwards.
Inq. p.m. n Edward III. ist. nrs. No. 8.
(New Reference, Chanc. Inq. p.m. Edw. III. File 49. No. 22)
John Chapman of Gussyche St. Hndrew.
Writ dated at Westminster izth Oct. 19 Ric. II (1395).
Inquisition taken at Warham in the county of Dorset on
Tuesday next before the feast of the Apostles Simon and Jude
19 Ric. II (1395) before John Perle the King's Escheator in the
county aforesaid, by the oath of John Hynton, Thomas Ode, John
Asslyn, Simon Person, Peter Champayn, William Compton, Ralph
Ralle, Richard Albolt, Walter Whetecorn, Thomas Feer, Richard
Rewillam and Henry Smedemour, who say that
John Chapman of Gyssych St. Andrew deceased held on the
day he died of the King in chief i messuage 16 acres of land in
Gyssich St. Andrew by the service of i pound of cumin yearly for
all service, which are worth yearly in all issues 35 6d. And they
say that he had no other or more lands or tenements of the King
in chief in demesne or in service, or of any other in the county
aforesaid. And they say that the said John Chapman died on
Thursday next before the feast of St. Peter ad vincula 15 Ric. II
(1391). And they say that Robert Chapman, chaplain, is his son
and heir and he is aged 26 years, and that the said Robert has
taken the issues and profits of the said messuage and land from
the time of the death of John his father, and still takes them.
Inq. p.m. 19 Ric. II. No. 18.
(New Reference. Chanc. Inq. p.m. Richard II. File 87. No. 18.)
Cbomas Chcddcr.
Writ * dated
Inquisition taken at Shirbourne in the county of Dorset on
Monday next after the feast of Holy Trinity 21 Hen. VI (1443)
before John Bayous the King's Escheator in the county aforesaid
* Only a fragment of the writ is left. As regards the property in Bristol,
co. Gloucester, cos. Devon and Cornwall, the writs are all dated at Westmin-
ster 6 June, 21 Henry VI, so it may be presumed that the Dorset writ was of
the same date.
52 Somerset &• Dorset Notes <§• Queries.
bv the oath of William Straunge,John Fauntleroy, John Kayleway,
William Ryder, John Roudon, Richard Rochell, John Wyllies,
Thomas Wyseman, Adam Hosyer, John Dene, William Haukyns,
John Draper, John Bailly, and John Gnnne, who say that
Thomas Chedder esquire held no lands or tenements of the
King in demesne or in service in the county aforesaid on the day
he died, but they say that the said Thomas Chedder held on the
day he died in the said county the manor of Childokeford with
the advowson of the church of the same manor in his demesne as
of fee, and also 4 acres of meadow and 4 acres of pasture in
Childokford Shillyngesokeford and Fitelford in his demesne as of
fee. And they say that the said manor meadow and pasture are
held of the Bishop of Winchester as of his manor of Caneford
but by what service they know not and they are worth yearly in
all issues besides reprises £10. And that the said Thomas Ched-
der on the day he died held no other or more lands or tene-
ments in the said county of the King or of any other in demesne
or in service. And that the said Thomas Chedder died on 3rd
June last. And that Joan late the wife of Richard Stafford esquire
and Isabella daughter of the said Thomas Chedder wife of John
Neuton son of Sir Richard Neuton knight * Chief Justice of the
lord the King, of the Bench, are his daughters and heirs and were
so on the said 3rd June, of which Joan was then aged 1 8 years and
upwards and Isabella was then aged 14 years and upwards.
Inq. p.m. 21 Hen. VI. No. 55.
(New Reference. Chanc. Inq. p.m. Henry VI. File 11 1. No. 55.)
Sir OliUiam Cbetelton, " cbivaler."
Writ dated at Redyng i6th April 21 Edw. Ill (1347) and tested
by the King's son Lionel, guardian of England.
Inquisition taken at Middelton in the county of Dorset
before Thomas Cary the King's Escheator in the said county on
Monday next after the feast of Holy Trinity 2 1 Edw. Ill ( 1 347)
by the oath of Walter Forney, John Warmwelle, Alexander Water -
combe, Ralph Wateycombe, Thomas Germayn, John Pokeswelle, Wil-
liam Round, John Corbyn, John Beneger, John Gerveyse, Walter de
Bakebere and William Warham who say that
Sir William de Chetelton "chivaler" held no lands or tene-
ments in the bailiwick of the said Escheator in his demesne as of
fee on the day he died, but he held on the day he died in service
of the King in chief ^rd part of the vill of Warmwelle and i caru-
cate of land at Lytelmayne in the said county, which ^rd part
•i.e. Chief Justice of the Common Pleas.
Somerset &• Dorset Notes &• Queries. 53
was held by the service of i pair of gilt spurs or 6d and i trencher
or i2d, and the said i carucate was held by the service of i sore
fish hawk or izd yearly for all services. And they say that the
said William de Chetelton died on Monday next before the feast
of the Purification of the Blessed Mary last past. And that
William son of Matthew son of the aforesaid William de Chetel-
ton deceased, is his next heir and he is aged 5 years and upwards.
Inq. p.m. 21 Edw. III. ist nrs. No. n.
(New Reference. Chan. Inq. p.m. Edw. III. File 83. No. u.)
Hlexander Cbevcrel.
Writ dated atByger ist Oct. 4 Edw. II (1310).
Inquisition made before the King's Escheator at Nyweton
Cheverel on lyth November 4 Edw. II (1310) by the oath of
William de Bares, Richard de Croxton, William de Bonevill, Henry
de Ekerdon, Ralph de Byngeham, Roger Gys, Roger Matheu, Stephen
de Uppeheye, Henry Hamond, Nicholas de Wroxhale, John Beneyt
and Henry le Hopere who say that
Alexander de Cheverel held in his demesne as of fee in the
county aforesaid on the day he died the manor of Wynfred Egle
of the King in chief by the service of i knight's fee by gift of
the King. To hold to the said Alexander and his heirs of the
King and his heirs for ever. In which manor there is a capital
messuage which is worth yearly with the fruit and herbage of the
garden 6s 8d, and 80 acres of arable land worthyearly 26s 8d, price
of the acre 4d, and 82 acres of arable land worth yearly 205 6d,
price of the acre 3d, and 40 acres of fresh land worth yearly
35 4d, price of the acre id, and 20 acres of meadow worth yearly
305, price of the acre is 6d, and 10 acres of meadow worth yearly
i os, price of the acre i2d, and 6 acres of several pasture worth
yearly 35. And there is there a certain hilly pasture (pastura
montana) worth yearly besides the portion of the commoners
325 4d. There is there a certain park the profit of which is
worth yearly 6s 8d. There are there 3 free tenants who render
yearly at the four chief terms by equal portions us. There are
there 26 customary tenants each of whom renders yearly at the
terms aforesaid 33 and for their autumn works i2d for all service.
There is there i customary tenant who shall work at making
plough shares at his own cost with the lord's iron and those
works are worth yearly 53. There are there 7 cottars who ren-
der yearly at the terms aforesaid 8s 6d for all service. And all
the said customary tenants render yearly at the feast of St.
Michael for a certain pasture upon Wygedun 143 and for a certain
pasture at Westwode at the feasts of St. Martin and Pentecost by
equal portions 45, and for a certain custom at the feast of St.
54 Somerset &• Dorset Notes <§» Queries.
Lawrence 55. Pleas and perquisites of the Court there are worth
yearly ics.
Sum of the whole value yearly * £15. os. 8d.
The said Jurors say also that
Alexander de Cheverel held in his demesne as of fee in the
county aforesaid on the day he died certain lands and tene-
ments in Maydene Nyweton of Reginald de Sancto Martino by the
service of \ knight's fee, that is to say : a capital messuage which
is worth yearly 55, and 60 acres of arable land worth yearly 155,
price of the acre 3d, and 10 acres of fresh land worth yearly rod,
price of the acre id, and 10 acres of meadow worth yearly 155,
price of the acre i8d. And there is there a certain small grove
of which the profit is worth yearly zs. There are there certain
free tenants who render yearly at the 4 chief terms by equal por-
tions 'jos yd for all service. There are there 5 customary tenants
each of whom holds i virgate of land in villenage, rendering
therfor yearly at the terms aforesaid by equal portions 133 4d for
all service. There are there 8 customary tenants each of whom
holds \ virgate of land in villenage rendering therefor yearly at
the said terms by equal portions 6s 8d for all service. There are
there 3 customary tenants who hold i virgate of land in villenage
rendering yearly at the same terms by equal portions 135 4d for
all service. There are there 7 cottars who render yearly at the
same terms by equal portions i8s for all service. Pleas and per-
quisites of the Court there are worth yearly 45.
Sum of this value yearly * £13 33. gd.
The Jurors say also that Joan wife of John de Sancto Laudo
and daughter of the said Alexander de Cheverel is his next heir and
she is aged 26 years and upwards.
Inq. p.m. 4 Edw. II. No. 37.
(New Reference. Chanc. Inq. p.m. Edw. II. File 21. No. i.)
KUlter Cbcverell.
Writ dated at Westminster 3oth Novr. 21 Edw. IV (1481).
Inquisition indented taken at Dorchestre in the county of
Dorset on 26th October 22 Edw. IV (1481) before John Wroth
the King's Escheator in the county aforesaid, by the oath of John
Russell esquire, William Peverell esquire, William Strode, William
* The total comes to ,£10. o. 8.
* Should be £8. 3. 9. In the original it is xiijli- iijs. ixd. instead of viijH.
ijs. ixd. a clerical error. (?)
Somerset &> Dorset Notes &• Queries. 55
Gere, Henry Grey, John Smyth, Thomas Smyth, Richard Brynyng,
John Gaunte, John Wursley, William Colmonv and William Shawe
who say that
Walter Cheverell held no lands or tenements of the King in
chief in demesne or in service in the county aforesaid on the day
he died, but they say that on that day he was seized in his de-
mesne as of fee of and in the manor of Upsterthill, and 120 acres
of land and pasture in Nether Sterthill, and 4 messuages 100
acres of land 20 acres of pasture in Blanford Forreyn and Stoke
Hide, and 100 acres of land in Welle in the parish of Bemyster,
and i messuage 80 acres of land meadow and pasture in Water-
comb, and 80 acres of land in Warmewoll, and i close of pasture
containing in itself i acre of land in Wraxhale, and 7 acres of
arable land and pasture for 100 sheep (bidentes) in Wraxhale.
Moreover the said Walter on the day of his death was seized in
right of Cristina his wife, still living, of 4 tenements 120 acres of
land 30 acres of meadow and i mill called a "tokyng" mill in
Russhton, and 80 acres of pasture in Shaftesbury, and i messuage
70 acres of land in Swyre, and i messuage no acres of land in
Stowre Prewes. And the said Walter was also seized jointly with
the said Cristina his wife, to them and the heirs of their bodies of
and in the manors of Est Stoke Chauntemarll and Hevedon as
more fully appears by a charter, shewn to the Jurors, dated i2th
May 7 Edw. IV (1467) thereof made by John Kaylway William
Lewston and John Russell to the said Walter and Cristina. The
Jurors also say that long before his death the said Walter Che-
verell was seized in his demesne as of fee of the manor of
Loford, and so thereof being seized he gave that manor to John
Cheverell and Margery his wife. To have and to hold to them
and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder in default of such
heirs to the right heirs of the said Walter for ever, as more fully
appears by a charter, shewn to the Jurors, dated izth May,
7 Edw. IV (1467) thereof by the said Walter made to the said
John and Margery.
And the Jurors say that the manor of Upsterthill and 120
acres of land and pasture in Nethersterthill are held of Thomas
More esquire but by what services they know not and they. are
worth yearly in all issues besides reprises £10. And that the
said 4 messuages too acres of land 20 acres of meadow in Blan-
ford Foreyn and Stokehyde are held of John Trenchard but by
what services they know not and they are worth yearly in all
issues besides reprises £6. And that the said 100 acres of land
in Well are held of William Hody as of his manor of Pyllysdon
by a rent of 43 yearly for all services and they are worth yearly
in all issues besides reprises 5 marks. And that the said mes-
suage and 80 acres of land meadow and pasture in Watercomb
are held of the Abbot of Byndon but by what services they know
not and they are worth yearly in all issues besides reprises 205.
56 Somerset &• Dorset Notes &• Queries.
And that the said close of pasture and 7 acres of land and pas-
ture for sheep in Wraxhole are held of the Abbot of Middelton
by a rent of i red rose yearly for all services and they are worth
yearly besides reprises 55. And that the said 4 tenements 120
acres of land 30 acres of meadow and the mill in Russheton are
held of the Abbot of Byndon but by what services they know not
and they are worth yearly besides reprises 5 marks. And that
the said 80 acres of pasture in Shaftesbury are held of John Rus-
sell but by what services they know not and they are worth yearly
besides reprises 4 marks. And that the said messuage and 70
acres of land in Swyre are held of the Earl of Salisbury as of his
manor of Swyre by a rent of i pound of wax yearly for all service
and they are worth yearly besides reprises 133. And that the said
messuage and 1 10 acres of land in Stowre Prewes are held of the
said John Rtissell by a rent of i pair of gloves or id at the feast of
Easter yearly to be paid for all service and they are worth yearly
besides reprises 203. And that the said manor of Est Stoke is
held of the Duchess of York but by what services they know not
and it is worth yearly besides reprises £10. And the said manors
of Chauntemarell and Hevedon are held of the Abbot of Middel-
ton, but by what services they know not and they are worth yearly
besides reprises 10 marks. And that the manor of Leford is held
of the Earl of Salisbury but by what services they
know not and it is worth yearly besides reprises £10. And they
say that the said Walter held no other or more lands or tene-
ments of the King or of any other in demesne or in service in
the county aforesaid on the day he died. And that the said
Walter died on 4th November last past and that John Cheverell
is his son and heir and he is aged 40 years and upwards.
Inq. p.m. 22 Edw. IV. No. 45.
(New Reference. Chanc. Inq. p.m. Edw. IV. File 85. No. 45.)
Sir Ralph Cbeyny "Cbivaler."
Writ dated at Westminster i6th Novr 2 Henry IV (1400).
Inquisition taken at Abbotesbury in the county of Dorset on
Friday on the Morrow of St. Katherine the Virgin 2 Hen. IV
(1400) before William Lenthorp the King's Escheator in the
county aforesaid, by the oath of Henry Ekerdon, Richard Pokes -
well, Walter Horsford, John Hount, John Bailly, Robert Heryng,
John Uruayn, John Person, Edmund Taylour, Nicholas Spenser, John
Hoyvile and John Pynford, who say that
Sir Ralph Cheyny knight did not hold any lands or tene-
ments in his demesne as of fee or in service of the King in chief
in the said county on the day he died. But they say that a certain
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